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An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment
May-June 2012 (vol. 38 no. 3)
pp. 520-536
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R. Garcia-Carmona, J. C. Duenas, F. Cuadrado, "An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 520-536, May-June, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TSE.2011.24,
author = {R. Garcia-Carmona and J. C. Duenas and F. Cuadrado},
title = {An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {38},
number = {3},
issn = {0098-5589},
year = {2012},
pages = {520-536},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2011.24},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
TI - An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment
IS - 3
SN - 0098-5589
SP520
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EPD - 520-536
A1 - R. Garcia-Carmona,
A1 - J. C. Duenas,
A1 - F. Cuadrado,
PY - 2012
KW - service-oriented architecture
KW - computability
KW - fault tolerant computing
KW - banking domain
KW - autonomous engine
KW - services configuration
KW - runtime management
KW - service-based systems
KW - dynamically composed distributed services
KW - distributed elements
KW - runtime resources
KW - automated closed control loop
KW - generic information model
KW - runtime elements
KW - service dependencies
KW - business objectives
KW - satisfiability
KW - Runtime
KW - Containers
KW - Servers
KW - Web services
KW - Context
KW - Business
KW - Engines
KW - service configuration.
KW - Autonomic systems
KW - model-based management
KW - satisfiability
VL - 38
JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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R. Garcia-Carmona, Dept. de Ing. de Sist. Telematicos, Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
J. C. Duenas, Dept. de Ing. de Sist. Telematicos, Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
F. Cuadrado, Sch. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queen Mary Univ. of London, London, UK
The runtime management of the infrastructure providing service-based systems is a complex task, up to the point where manual operation struggles to be cost effective. As the functionality is provided by a set of dynamically composed distributed services, in order to achieve a management objective multiple operations have to be applied over the distributed elements of the managed infrastructure. Moreover, the manager must cope with the highly heterogeneous characteristics and management interfaces of the runtime resources. With this in mind, this paper proposes to support the configuration and deployment of services with an automated closed control loop. The automation is enabled by the definition of a generic information model, which captures all the information relevant to the management of the services with the same abstractions, describing the runtime elements, service dependencies, and business objectives. On top of that, a technique based on satisfiability is described which automatically diagnoses the state of the managed environment and obtains the required changes for correcting it (e.g., installation, service binding, update, or configuration). The results from a set of case studies extracted from the banking domain are provided to validate the feasibility of this proposal.

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Index Terms:
service-oriented architecture,computability,fault tolerant computing,banking domain,autonomous engine,services configuration,runtime management,service-based systems,dynamically composed distributed services,distributed elements,runtime resources,automated closed control loop,generic information model,runtime elements,service dependencies,business objectives,satisfiability,Runtime,Containers,Servers,Web services,Context,Business,Engines,service configuration.,Autonomic systems,model-based management,satisfiability
Citation:
R. Garcia-Carmona, J. C. Duenas, F. Cuadrado, "An Autonomous Engine for Services Configuration and Deployment," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 520-536, May-June 2012, doi:10.1109/TSE.2011.24
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