Proactive Self-healing System for Application Maintenance in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (original) (raw)

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With evolving modern IT technology, one desirable characteristic of distributed of applications is self-healing, or the ability to reconfigure themselves “on the fly” to circumvent failure. Thus, the goal is to avoid catastrophic failure through prompt execution of remedial actions. This paper proposes a self-healing system that monitors, diagnoses and heals its own internal problems using self-awareness as contextual information. The proposed system consists of multi agents that analyze the log context, error events and resource status in order to perform self-diagnosis and self-healing. For rapid and efficient self-healing, for developing the proposed system, we use a 6-step process: monitoring, filtering, translation, diagnosis, decision and feedback. Our experiments conducted with a prototype system confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system.

This work was supported in parts by Ubiquitous Autonomic Computing and Network Project, 21st Century Frontier R&D Program and ITTA IT Research Center Program of Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea.

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1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun Jangahn, Suwon, 400-746, Korea
   Jeongmin Park, Giljong Yoo, Chulho Jeong & Eunseok Lee

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1. Jeongmin Park
2. Giljong Yoo
3. Chulho Jeong
4. Eunseok Lee

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1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada
   Marina L. Gavrilova
2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
   Osvaldo Gervasi
3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA
   Vipin Kumar
4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK
   C. J. Kenneth Tan
5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia
   David Taniar
6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
   Antonio Laganá
7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
   Youngsong Mun
8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
   Hyunseung Choo

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Park, J., Yoo, G., Jeong, C., Lee, E. (2006). Proactive Self-healing System for Application Maintenance in Ubiquitous Computing Environment. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751588\_45

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