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LISA '03 — Abstract
Pp. 125-148 of the Proceedings
Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to
Configuration Management
Alva Couch, John Hart, Elizabeth G. Idhaw, and Dominic Kallas,
Tufts University
Abstract
We present a new model of configuration management based upon a
hierarchy of simple communicating autonomous agents. Each of these
agents is responsible for a "closure": a domain of "semantic
predictability" in which declarative commands to the agent have a
simple, persistent, portable, and documented effect upon subsequent
observable behavior. Closures are built bottom-up to form a
management hierarchy based upon the pre-existing dependencies between
subsystems in a complex system. Closure agents decompose
configuration management via a modularity of effect and behavior that
promises to eventually lead to self-organizing systems driven
entirely by behavioral specifications, where a system's configuration
is free of details that have no observable effect upon system
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