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A self-healing technique using reusable component-level operation knowledge

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Although autonomic computing reduces traditional operational cost, it introduces another cost factor related to operation knowledge. This paper focuses on self-healing functionality and proposes a technique which uses reusable component-level operation knowledge. To achieve reusability, the operation knowledge used by the proposed technique excludes system specific information. Such knowledge becomes independent of a specific system structure, and therefore, self-healing systems can share the operation knowledge across organizations and can adapt to changes. A problem on achieving reusability by excluding system specific information is treatment of dependency among components. To cope with this problem, a dependency injection mechanism is introduced. The dependency injection mechanism works out needed recovery actions by relating component-level operation knowledge and system-specific information. Furthermore, this paper describes an implemented prototype together with an application example.

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  1. Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai-Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 212-8582, Japan

    Teruyoshi Zenmyo, Hideki Yoshida & Tetsuro Kimura

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Zenmyo, T., Yoshida, H. & Kimura, T. A self-healing technique using reusable component-level operation knowledge. Cluster Comput 10, 385–394 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-007-0025-8

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