Towards an Organic Middleware for Real-Time Applications

Abstract

This paper presents the architecture and conception of an organic middleware based on the yet existing, not organic middleware OSA+. We show new general design principles helping to establish the self-organizing middleware which can be used for totally different applications like robotics, warehouse management and the planning of a person's daily routine.

Implementation and evaluation of a self‐organizing artificial hormone system to assign time‐dependent tasks

“…A detailed analysis of time dependencies of a task set's jobs is presented in [30,32,33]. It is necessary because deadlocks or livelocks can occur because of the dependencies.…”

“…In this paper, we address time dependent tasks, each of which consists of a linear sequence of instructions, . We developed two approaches to assign such tasks to resources, a one‐stage and a two‐stage adaptation of the AHS, both of which are enhanced with additional features such as partial suppressing of tasks and distributed task termination.…”

Model Driven Engineering versus Organic Computing, Two Complementary Approaches

“…If OC is probably of interest in the future, it requires new technologies such as so-called "organic middlewares" [3]. This shows that OC is a technique and not a methodology.…”

Using Multi-Agent Principles for Implementing an Organic Real-Time Middleware

“…These jobs are sent between services running on the same or different nodes. While the original OSA+ implementation does not feature organic aspects, recently work has been done in order to extend OSA+ towards that direction [9]. Since the basic architecture of our middleware bears some similarity to that of OSA+, we will have a closer look on OSA+ in the next section.…”

“…al. [9] have recently explored ways to implement organic computing principles within the OSA+ framework. For any job that is to be scheduled, the application can define a set of suitable services, and the organic manager (which runs as a system service within OSA+) selects the optimal service from this set, for example using cost/benefit calculations, and dispatches the job to that service.…”