Environment Server: A System Support for Adaptive Distributed Applications
Environment Server: A System Support for Adaptive Distributed Applications
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环境服务器：自适应分布式应用程序的系统支持
DOI：
10.1007/3-540-64216-1_46
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发表时间：
1998
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通讯作者：
Kenji Shimamoto
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作者：
T. Nakajima;Hiroyuki Aizu;Masaru Kobayashi;Kenji Shimamoto
各种新类型的应用可以在诸如移动计算环境和无处不在的计算环境的未来计算环境中可用。这些应用程序可能会极大地改变我们的日常生活，因为计算机可以嵌入到我们的日常必需品中，如电视、微波炉、相机和空调。在这些环境中，计算环境可能会发生巨大变化，应用程序可能会在具有截然不同的硬件配置的计算机之间迁移。因此，这些应用程序需要适应各种不同的计算环境，这些计算环境可能具有截然不同的高效执行特性，而这种适应要求应用程序能够通过一个统一的接口访问有关计算环境的信息。环境服务器以集成的方式管理有关计算环境的各种信息，应用程序可以通过其定义良好的接口访问这些信息。这使得构建具有系统框架的适应性应用程序成为可能。
Various new types of applications can be available in future computing environments such as mobile computing environments and ubiquitous computing environments. The applications may change our daily life dramatically since computers can be embedded in our daily necessaries such as televisions, microwaves, cameras, and air conditioners. In these environments, computing environments can be changed dramatically, and applications may be migrated among computers that have drastically different hardware configurations. Therefore, these applications should be adapted to various computing environments that may have dramatically different characteristics for their efficient executions, and the adaptation requires that the applications can access information about computing environments through a uniform interface.In this paper, we propose anenvironment serverthat is important as a basic infrastructure for building adaptive applications for future computing environments. The environment server manages various information about computing environments in an integrated fashion, and applications can access these information through its well defined interface. This makes it possible to build adaptive applications with a systematic framework.