Overwhelming complexity has become one of the main opponents of continued growth and development in the field of distributed embedded systems. Following the example of automotive systems, this dissertation defines a novel component based IT-Architecture which eases the management and maintenance by applying self-management mechanisms. The definition of modular and extensible self-knowledge provides the foundation to implement self-configuring and self-healing system behavior. With this self-knowledge model, the consistency of distributed embedded systems is defined under functional, nonfunctional and real-time points of view. Based on the consistency definitions, different algorithms for configuration and healing have been prototypically implemented and evaluated with the help of a simulation environment. The mechanisms of self-management are applied to the automotive other IT-domains in a general evaluation.
«Overwhelming complexity has become one of the main opponents of continued growth and development in the field of distributed embedded systems. Following the example of automotive systems, this dissertation defines a novel component based IT-Architecture which eases the management and maintenance by applying self-management mechanisms. The definition of modular and extensible self-knowledge provides the foundation to implement self-configuring and self-healing system behavior. With this self-know...
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