INTRODUCING INTELLIGENCE IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

In recent years, there has been growing use of distributed systems, an d therefore a growing demand for tools able to manage them. However, t hese tools are not always well suited to their task, in part because o f the lack of built-in intelligence. This paper discusses how to intro duce intelligence to distributed systems management and control. To do so we analyse requirements for distributed systems management and foc us on management tasks from the architecture and model points of view. Intelligence is introduced through distributed artificial intelligenc e concepts and multiagent systems. We illustrate the application of ou r techniques with an example based on traffic and congestion control i n ATM networks.