Decision Support in Cooperative QoS Management

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URL:	https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/1742
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-17422
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	1997
The title of a journal, publication series:	Technical Reports
Volume:	97-004
Place of publication:	Mannheim
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Sonstige - Fakultät für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsmathematik
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik > Institut für Informatik > Technical Reports
Subject:	004 Computer science, internet
Subject headings (SWD):	Dienstgüte , Betriebsmittelverwaltung , Stochastisches Petri-Netz
Keywords (English):	QoS , Intelligent Agents , Resource Management
Abstract:	Cooperative QoS management is a new quality of service management scheme which is based on QoS agents distributed within a system and cooperating with each other to provide the QoS negotiated with users, thereby ameliorating the overail system's resource usage and decreasing the communication costs. During their operations, agents have to take decisions in order to react on QoS violations, initiate QoS renegotiation processes or react on renegotiation requests from other QoS agents. In this paper, we present two tools which support cooperating QoS agents in their decision processes: a model called Quality of Operation, based on a mathematical formula, and an approach based on a new variant of Stochastic Petri Nets, so-called Controlled Stochastic Petri Nets.