Improving software maintenance by using agent-based remote maintenance shell

Lovrek, Ignac; Jezic, Gordan; Kušek, Mario; Ljubi, Igor; Carić, Antun; Huljenić, Darko; Dešić, Saša; Labor, Ozren

doi:10.1109/icsm.2003.1235454

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“…MA-RMS system represents a protected environment for software verification without suspending or influencing regular operation. It includes the following remote operations that support software maintenance: delivering software to a remote system, remote installation, uninstallation, software starting, stopping, maintaining several versions of software, selective or parallel execution of two versions and version replacement [2]. In addition to the MA-RMS agents we have added several new agents, each assigned with the special task within our suggested model.…”

Section: Proactive Service Fulfillmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Cooperative mobile agents for automation of service provisioning: A telecom innovation

Ljubi

Podobnik

Jezic

2007

2007 2nd International Conference on Digital Information Management

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1This paper presents the application of cooperative mobile agents in service provisioning processes characteristic for Next-Generation Network (NGN). The advent of the NGN transforms traditional end-toend approach to service provisioning towards a consumer-centric model. In a highly competitive market, telecom companies have to envision customers' future needs and rapidly develop and provide value-added services. Authors propose a semantically enhanced solution of the service provisioning process, where designed model automates complete service provisioning lifecycle in the NGN. Proof-of-concept prototype is deployed into 3G network and enables network operators to enhance their provisioning process with features of proactivity, semantic-awareness and consumer context-awareness.

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Section: Proactive Service Fulfillmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Cooperative mobile agents for automation of service provisioning: A telecom innovation

Ljubi

Podobnik

Jezic

2007

2007 2nd International Conference on Digital Information Management

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“…Models can provide the knowledge sources to agents for driving such flexible behaviour and thus can be reused continuously. Intelligent/autonomous agents have been proved useful for bringing dynamics, flexibility and adaptivity to many different domains [16][17][18][19][20][21]. The combination of externalised requirements (which become the maintenance target) and an agent system (which will be the maintenance actor) is also a promising solution for adaptivity.…”

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Adaptive Agent Model: Software Adaptivity using an Agent-oriented Model-Driven Architecture

Xiao

Greer

2009

Information and Software Technology

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Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) promotes the development of software systems through successive building and generation of models, improving the reusability of models. Applying the same principles to the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) advances the ideas behind MDA even more significantly, due to the inherent adaptivity of software agents We describe an appropriate set of models originating from requirements specification and transformable to models understandable and executable by agents thus demonstrating an Agent-oriented Model-Driven Architecture (AMDA) approach. In AMDA, agents use hierarchical business knowledge models with business process rules at the top, business rules to control policy and logic in the middle and a base layer defining business concepts. Being externalised, knowledge is easily configurable by human beings and applied by software agents. A real case study is used to illustrate the process. The main advances over the object-oriented MDA are (i) the addition of component dynamics (ii) the use of agent-executable rule-based business models and (iii) a proposed higher level of abstraction with the direct representation of business requirements.

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“…Mobile agents are computer programs, consisting of both code and data that are able to migrate autonomously from node to node to perform computations on behalf of the user 2 . Mobile agents are beginning to be implemented into the remote monitoring and maintenance operations and have resulted in small-scale demonstrations and applications 3,4,5 . Yu et al 3 established a Problem-Oriented Multi-Agent-Based E-Service System to provide rapidly responsive services for industrial processes.…”

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“…Jezic et al 4 proposed a Remote Maintenance Shell (RMS) for software management in large distributed environments, which is based on the remote operations performed by cooperative mobile agents. Lovrek et al 5 developed an agent based software maintenance application. It allows software installation, modification and verification on the remote target system without suspending its regular operation.…”

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Mobile Agent-Based Remote Monitoring and Maintenance of Process Controller Performance

Dai

Yang

2005

Measurement and Control

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C ontroller performance usually refers to how well a controller and the process it controls work together in a single loop. This topic is of importance to companies wishing to gain a competitive edge. This might be surprising in the light of the fact that controllers can normally provide healthful performance at a limited operating range; 80% of loops have performance problems and feedback controllers perform far less than optimally 1 . Although use of advanced model control is now widespread, Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers are by far dominant feedback control algorithms. It's fair to say that with the amount of research effort put into control theories in the past decades, such as techniques about designing and commissioning, controllers are matured enough to handle these simple linear controllers. Therefore, what is lacking is the monitoring and maintenance of the controller after commissioning in order to keep the controller in an optimal state.There are outstanding benefits for monitoring and maintaining controller performance over the Internet: G Operators or managers can remotely monitor and adjust the plants and controllers in order to adapt to the quick change of markets; G Skilled plant managers situated in geographically diverse locations can collaborate to perform control tasks; G The software providers can remotely maintain and update their geographically distributed software products.Mobile agents are computer programs, consisting of both code and data that are able to migrate autonomously from node to node to perform computations on behalf of the user 2 . Mobile agents are beginning to be implemented into the remote monitoring and maintenance operations and have resulted in small-scale demonstrations and applications 3,4,5 . Yu et al 3 established a Problem-Oriented Multi-Agent-Based E-Service System to provide rapidly responsive services for industrial processes. Jezic et al 4 proposed a Remote Maintenance Shell (RMS) for software management in large distributed environments, which is based on the remote operations performed by cooperative mobile agents. Lovrek et al 5 developed an agent based software maintenance application. It allows software installation, modification and verification on the remote target system without suspending its regular operation.This paper investigates the integration of the mobile agent technology and the monitoring and maintenance of controller performance. A multi-agent based monitoring and maintenance system is proposed, which allows distributed access, parallel computing, remotely monitoring and maintaining the performance of geographically distributed controllers. An industrial catalytic reactor simulator with a PID controller is used as a case study to illustrate the proposed mobile agent application.The rest of this paper is organised as follows. A brief introduction to the methodology of monitoring and maintaining controller performance is given first and immediately followed by the description of the mobile agent based system. A case study i...

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Improving software maintenance by using agent-based remote maintenance shell

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Cooperative mobile agents for automation of service provisioning: A telecom innovation

Cooperative mobile agents for automation of service provisioning: A telecom innovation

Adaptive Agent Model: Software Adaptivity using an Agent-oriented Model-Driven Architecture

Mobile Agent-Based Remote Monitoring and Maintenance of Process Controller Performance

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