NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research: Automatic Configuration and Monitoring of Component-Based Distributed Systems

提案编号：CCR-9970139 TITLE：NSF-CNPq协作研究：基于组件的分布式系统的自动配置和监控PI：Roy H.Campbell教授：M.Dennis Mickunas组件技术已成为未来几十年有效软件开发问题的最有前途的解决方案。它支持在可视化工具或编程接口的帮助下，通过将现成的软件组件集合在一起来构建复杂的系统。然而，现有的组件体系结构缺乏对分析和利用组件之间交互和依赖关系的性质和大小的支持，本研究的目的是应用关于组件需求和依赖关系的知识来允许软件系统的自动配置，而几乎不需要系统管理员或用户的干预。它专注于开发形式化模型和软件工具，以重现组件之间的交互。有了这些工具，该项目将产生(1)用于分布式基于组件的系统的自动配置的基础设施和(2)用于收集、合并、分析和可视化关于组件交互的定性和定量信息的通用框架。研究将提供被现有对象和组件体系结构所忽视的重要的软件基础设施。它对下一代分布式系统的可靠性、灵活性和自动适应性有很大的潜在影响。

Proposal Number: CCR-9970139TITLE: NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research: Automatic Configurationand Monitoring of Component-Based Distributed SystemsPI: Prof. Roy H. CampbellCO-PI: Prof. M. Dennis MickunasComponent technology has appeared as the most promising solution for theproblem of effective software development for the coming decades. Itsupportsthe construction of sophisticated systems by assembling together acollectionof off-the-shelf software components with the help of visual tools orprogrammatic interfaces. However, existing component architectures lacksupport to analyze and exploit the nature and magnitude of interactions anddependencies among components.The objective of this research is to apply the knowledge about componentrequirements and dependencies to permit the automatic configuration ofsoftware systems with little or no intervention from system administratorsorusers. It focuses on developing formal models and software tools forreifyingthe interactions between components. With these tools, the project willproduce (1) an infrastructure for automatic configuration of distributedcomponent-based systems and (2) a generic framework for collecting,consolidating, analyzing, and visualizing qualitative and quantitativeinformation about component interaction.The research will offer an important software infrastructure which has beenneglected by existing object and component architectures. It has a greatpotential impact on the reliability, flexibility, and automaticadaptability of next generation distributed systems.