A NEW REPRESENTATION AND PLANNER FOR COMPUTER BATCH JOB SCHEDULING, EXECUTION MONITORING, PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION

Tracey Lall

2010

Abstract

Modern enterprise computer environments use commercial schedulers to run and monitor computer batch jobs and processes. Currently the job schedules must be manually designed to include diagnosis and error correction behaviours for failed jobs or failures must be handled by support staff at execution time, requiring them to be on call while these jobs run. Automating these manual tasks using planning techniques requires a compact representation of contingent plans, handling and monitoring of actions which have a variable duration, actions which are triggered by external events and planning for knowledge goals. Currently these features are not provided by any existing single planner. We present a novel plan representation which drawing on existing scheduler representations provides all these features in an integrated manner. A planner implementation using this representation with a new action logic is described along with key worked examples from the domain.

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in Harvard Style

Lall T. (2010). A NEW REPRESENTATION AND PLANNER FOR COMPUTER BATCH JOB SCHEDULING, EXECUTION MONITORING, PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 277-284. DOI: 10.5220/0002723602770284


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Tracey Lall},
title={A NEW REPRESENTATION AND PLANNER FOR COMPUTER BATCH JOB SCHEDULING, EXECUTION MONITORING, PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={277-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002723602770284},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A NEW REPRESENTATION AND PLANNER FOR COMPUTER BATCH JOB SCHEDULING, EXECUTION MONITORING, PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Lall T.
PY - 2010
SP - 277
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0002723602770284