Autonomic Computing

Relationships Among Autonomic Elements

In its most dynamic and elaborate form, the service relationship among autonomic elements will also have a life cycle. Each stage of this life cycle engenders its own set of engineering challenges and standardization requirements.

Specification

An autonomic element must have associated with it a set of output services it can perform and a set of input services that it requires, expressed in a standard format so that other autonomic elements can understand it. Typically, the element will register with a directory service such as Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) or an Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) registry, providing a description of its capabilities and details about addresses ...