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As various Internet services, e-commerce, and information systems permeate our lives, their continual availability becomes a dominant issue. But continuing software evolution requires system reconfiguration. Running systems must upgrade their components or change their configuration parameters. In addition, Internet services often need to serve thousands or millions of users. This scenario raises three conflicting issues: availability, configurability, and scalability.
We propose the use of mobile reconfiguration agents for the efficient, secure, and scalable dynamic reconfiguration of Internet systems. We describe a CORBA object-oriented framework that supports dynamic reconfiguration and allows customization to different kinds of computing environments ranging from PDAs and embedded systems with limited resources to powerful workstations.
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation, grants 98-70736 and EIA99-72884EQ. Fabio Kon is supported in part by CAPES-Brazil, proc. 1405/95-2.
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Kon, F., Gill, B., Anand, M., Campbell, R., Mickunas, M.D. (2000). Secure Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scalable CORBA Systems with Mobile Agents. In: Kotz, D., Mattern, F. (eds) Agent Systems, Mobile Agents, and Applications. ASA MA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45347-5_8
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