Building adaptive systems using ensemble

✍ Scribed by Robbert Van Renesse; Ken Birman; Mark Hayden; Alexey Vaysburd; David Karr

• Book ID: 101236784
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 147 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0644
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(19980725)28:9<963::aid-spe179>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

Trends in networking and distributed computing are creating a new generation of applications that must adapt as the environment within which they execute changes. Examples of adaptation include switching protocols to overcome a security exposure or failure mode seen only in certain settings, changing data rates to accommodate a slow link, or adapting the behavior of a high level application to match the set of participants using the application. We describe the Ensemble system, a tool for building adaptive distributed programs.