A management paradigm in large distributed computing environment

The experience with the development and application of a cooperation multi-agent framework (CMAF) derived mainly from integrated technologies of distributed processing system, knowledge-based system, and object-oriented programming style is reported. At the same time, a two-level control mechanism which contains meta-planning and local-planning is also proposed to achieve the high degree of goodness in problem-solving process. At present, the developed prototyping of CMAF system is implemented based on two existed products: Cosmic's CLIPS and Sun's RPC. to demonstrate its effect, the fault management system is built using CMAF installed on the SUN network environment. It is found that using CMAF tool is a very efficient shell of the distributed problem solver. Moreover, based on the versatile properties of reusability shell, transparency facility, and adaptive knowledge base, the CMAF is referred to as tools for large distributed management systems in the future.<
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