[WAD+10] Integrating Autonomic Grid Components and Process-Driven Business Applications

Abstract

Today's business applications are increasingly process driven, meaning that the main application logic is executed by a dedicate process engine. In addition, component-oriented software development has been attracting attention for building complex distributed applications. In this paper we present the experiences gained from building a process-driven biometric identification application which makes use of Grid infrastructures via the Grid Component Model (GCM). GCM, besides guaranteeing access to Grid resources, supports autonomic management of notable parallel composite components. This feature is exploited within our biometric identification application to ensure real time identification of fingerprints. Therefore, we briefly introduce the GCM framework and the process engine used, and we describe the implementation of the application using autonomic GCM components. Finally, we summarize the results, experiences, and lessons learned focusing on the integration of autonomic GCM components and the process-driven approach.

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ibm:autonomics:09 (In proceedings)
Author(s)	Thomas Weigold, Marco Aldinucci, Marco Danelutto and Vladimir Getov
Title	« Integrating Autonomic Grid Components and Process-Driven Business Applications »
In	Autonomic Computing and Communications Systems Third International ICST Conference, Autonomics 2009, Limassol, Cyprus, September 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Series	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST)
Editor(s)	Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Roberto Beraldi, Roy Friedman and Marco Mamei
Volume	23
Page(s)	98-113
Year	2010
Publisher	Springer
Address	Limassol, Cyprus
ISSN number	1867-8211
URL	http://calvados.di.unipi.it/storage/paper_files/2010_BS_autonomics09.pdf