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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSalvatore D'Alo, Alessandro Donatelli, Giovanni Lanfranchi, Claudio Marinelli
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A self-adaptive resource management method and a corresponding system. An authority publishes multiple rules into a corresponding repository. Each rule defines a desired target configuration for a category of subjects. Some rules are also associated with a corresponding stage in a predefined flow of application of the rules. A supervisor publishes the value of a current stage into a workflow repository. Each subject retrieves and applies the rules for its category and corresponding to the current stage. Information about the compliance of the subjects with the corresponding rules is published in a membership data repository. The supervisor detects the completion of the current stage when the subjects are compliant with the corresponding rules, and updates the value of the current stage to start a further stage.
In a data processing system including a number of subject entities and at least one authority entity, an autonomic management method for self-configuring the number of subject entities, each subject entity belonging to at least one of a number of categories, wherein the method includes:
A data processing system operating in a peer-to-peer distributed computing environment, the data processing system comprising:
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