Folded Interaction Systems and Their Application to the Survivability Analysis of Unbounded Systems

Abstract

Modeling the fulfillment of global properties like survivability is a challenging problem in unbounded systems such as Grids, peer-to-peer systems, or swarms. This paper proposes Folded Interaction Systems (FIS), an extension of the classic I-Systems framework, to overcome the modeling issues. FIS is applied to a case of survivability assessment in Grids and demonstrates the identification of essential capabilities, the modeling of harmful incidents, and the derivation of standard strategies to sustain the survival of a system's mission. FIS is not restricted to survivability, it can be used for investigating the preservation of any global property.

Link repair in managed multi‐domain connections with end‐to‐end quality guarantees

“…The modern network‐based services, however, depend frequently on the multiple quality parameters at the same time. An immediate implication of thisobservation is the increasing complexity of threshold values (vectors rather than scalars), aggregators (matrix aggregators rather than vector ones) and the respective restoration procedures (examples are given in Schiffers and Kranzlmüller ). For networking services, in Yampolskiy et al .…”