Title :
Specifying lifecycles of object interactions within distributed systems
Author :
Dini, Petre ; Bochmann, Gregor V.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Opert. Res., Montreal Univ., Que., Canada
Abstract :
Presents a state model for interface bindings, as defined by those recommendations of the Basic Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (ODP) that concern object interactions. To distinguish between other kinds of relationship bindings, such as associations and aggregations, we call the interactions across object interfaces “cooperation relations”. In order to manage the configuration of distributed systems, we introduce the configuration state of a cooperation relation, and refine the lifecycle of such a relation according to the value space of its configuration state. A formalization of the configuration state and an example of a self-manageable cooperation relation are presented. The identification of different kinds of cooperation relations is presented across a distributed system which is currently being used as an experimental platform
Keywords :
configuration management; distributed processing; formal specification; object-oriented methods; Basic Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing; aggregations; associations; configuration state; distributed systems configuration management; interface bindings; lifecycle refinement; object interaction lifecycle specification; object interfaces; reconfiguration; relationship bindings; self-manageable cooperation relation; state model; value space; Computer science; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Educational institutions; IP networks; ISO standards; Marine vehicles; Open systems; Operations research; Resource management;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Management, 1996., Proceedings of Second IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7442-3
DOI :
10.1109/IWSM.1996.534150
