Distributed resource administration using Cfengine
Software—Practice & Experience
Automated system administration with feedback regulation
Software—Practice & Experience
Configurable immunity for evolving human-computer systems
Science of Computer Programming - Methods of software design: Techniques and applications
It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
Promise theory - a model of autonomous objects for pervasive computing and swarms
ICNS '06 Proceedings of the International conference on Networking and Services
Voluntary cooperation in pervasive computing services
LISA '05 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference - Volume 19
Modeling next generation configuration management tools
LISA '06 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Large Installation System Administration
An approach to understanding policy based on autonomy and voluntary cooperation
DSOM'05 Proceedings of the 16th IFIP/IEEE Ambient Networks international conference on Distributed Systems: operations and Management
Estimating Reliability of Conditional Promises
AIMS '07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Inter-Domain Management
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Promise theory defines a method by which static service bindings are made in a network, but little work has been done on handling the dynamic case in which bindings must change over time due to both contingencies and changes in policy. We define two new kinds of promises that provide temporal scope for a conditional promise. We show that simple temporally-scoped promises can describe common network behaviors such as leasing and failover, and allow an agent to completely control the sequence of sets of promises to which it commits with another agent, over time. This allows agents to adapt to changing conditions by making short-term bilateral agreements rather than the long-term unilateral agreements provided by previous promise constructions.