Architecture for an Autonomic Web Services Environment

Wenhu Tian, Farhana Zulkernine, Jared Zebedee, Wendy Powley, Pat Martin

2005

Abstract

The growing complexity of Web service platforms and their dynamically varying workloads make manually managing their performance a tough and time consuming task. Autonomic computing systems, that is, systems that are self-configuring and self-managing, have emerged as a promising approach to dealing with this increasing complexity. In this paper we propose an architecture of an autonomic Web service environment based on reflective programming techniques, where components at a Web service hosting site tunes themselves and collaborate to provide a self-managed and self-optimized system.

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in Harvard Style

Tian W., Zulkernine F., Zebedee J., Powley W. and Martin P. (2005). Architecture for an Autonomic Web Services Environment . In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Web Services and Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WSMDEIS, (ICEIS 2005) ISBN 972-8865-27-9, pages 54-66. DOI: 10.5220/0002561400540066


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wsmdeis05,
author={Wenhu Tian and Farhana Zulkernine and Jared Zebedee and Wendy Powley and Pat Martin},
title={Architecture for an Autonomic Web Services Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Web Services and Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WSMDEIS, (ICEIS 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={54-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002561400540066},
isbn={972-8865-27-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Web Services and Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WSMDEIS, (ICEIS 2005)
TI - Architecture for an Autonomic Web Services Environment
SN - 972-8865-27-9
AU - Tian W.
AU - Zulkernine F.
AU - Zebedee J.
AU - Powley W.
AU - Martin P.
PY - 2005
SP - 54
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0002561400540066