Autonomic Software Component QoS Matchmaking Algorithm Based on Fidelity Factor in Agent-Based Autonomic Computing System英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Software Engineering Applications, 2009, 2: 103-110 doi:10.4236/jsea.2009.22015 Published Online July 2009 (www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Autonomic Software Component QoS Matchmaking Algorithm Based on Fidelity Factor in Agent-Based Autonomic Computing System Kun Zhang , Manwu Xu , Hong Zhang 1,2 2 1 1 School of Computer Science Technology, Nanjing University of Science Technology, Nanjing, China; State Key Laboratory 2 for Novel Software, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Email: zhangkun@ Received December 8 , 2008; revised March 20 , 2009; accepted March 31 , 2009. th th st ABSTRACT Autonomic software component (ASC) QoS matchmaking problem for autonomic element has been taken as one of the most important issue in field of autonomic computing based on agent. Aimed at overcoming drawbacks such as subjec- tiveness and unfairness, and improving the self-configuration capability for autonomic element, we introduce evalua- tion mechanism of confidence of individual QoS attributes during ASC QoS matchmaking, i.e., fidelity factor for each attribute, and propose an ASC QoS matchmaking algorithm based on fidelity factor. Simulation experiments demon- strate that our proposed algorithm performs best performance in terms of QoS than other existing algorithms, and has better compromise between attribute quality and users’ evaluation when selecting ASC. Keywords: Autonomic Software Component, QoS Matchmaking, Fidelity Factor, Autonomic Computing, Autonomic Element 1. Introduction In mid-October 2001, aimed at the problem of looming software complexity crisis, IBM Company innovatively proposed autonomic computing [1] technology – com- puting systems that can manage themselves given high-level objective