Co-operative Adaptation Between End Points

Abstract

Open architecture systems present many challenges for system and application designers. Problems such as selecting adaptations, reliability, and security are overly complicated in traditional adaptation paradigms. Frequently, network applications operate peer to peer — where it is in the best interest of both parties to communicate. This model can be exploited to our benefit in open architectures. By shifting adaptation models towards co-operative adaptation along endpoints, hard problems can be simplified; at the same time, we can still maintain desired flexibility.