FeedbackFlow - An Adaptive Workflow Generator for System Management
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- We describe a prototypical framework that further automates system management by composing complex management tasks from elementary actions, and executing composite tasks with feedback-awareness. {\sl FEEDBACKFLOW} implements a general closed control loop of \emph{planning - execution - result validation - replanning}, and generates workflows of system management actions in an adaptive manner. System-dependent behaviour of the loop is specified by declarative description of the domain (essentially descriptions of available actions), and statement of the goal. We evaluate the design of this framework on examples taken from resource construction in Utility Computing environments, and discuss the challenges we have encountered. Our implementation utilizes external components such as \emph{MBP}, a \emph{PDDL}-conform planner, and \emph{Triana}, a workflow specification and execution framework. An alternative approach involving \emph{BPEL4WS} is discussed.
Verfasserangaben: | Artur Andrzejak, Ulf Hermann, Akhil Sahai |
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Dokumentart: | ZIB-Report |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | planning; system management; workflow generation |
CCS-Klassifikation: | K. Computing Milieux / K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS / K.6.4 System Management |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 31.01.2005 |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | ZIB-Report (05-12) |
ZIB-Reportnummer: | 05-12 |
Verlagspublikation: | An abbreviated vers. appeared in: Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Automatic Computing, ICAC-05, Seattle, WA, June 2005, pp. 335-336 |