A theory of reliability in database systems
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
An approach to the support of software evolution
The Computer Journal - Special issue: formal aspects of computing systems
The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The art of metaobject protocol
The art of metaobject protocol
The Information Bus: an architecture for extensible distributed systems
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A framework for dynamic reconfiguration of distributed programs
A framework for dynamic reconfiguration of distributed programs
Group Communications Algorithm for Dynamically
Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
An Object-Oriented Model for Distributed System Management
Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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The Configuration management service is responsible for providing description for managed entities in the system. It is also responsible for change management. This service, along with monitoring management, can be considered as the most basic management service that all other services need. It becomes particularly important with modern distributed systems where we have a large number of heterogeneous components with complex relationships between them and with the need to meet the requirements of a continuously changing working environment. The management kernel of our system is an extended configuration management service which provides also monitoring functions. This paper focuses on the configuration management tasks, it represents the specification language used to describe managed entities, along with an algorithm which realizes a difficult compromise between consistency, performance, change transparency and support for a wide class of applications.