An Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Information Platform
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Huang, Tzu-Lung
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
With the rapid development of information technology organizations have become highly dependent on computers. However, research shows that computer resources often remain neglected or unused. But when using special applications that consume large amounts of computer resources, enterprises need to spend a great deal of money to buy high-end servers in order to meet demand. Therefore, how to make use of internal computer resources to decrease unnecessary expenditure is one of the main challenges that enterprises face today. To deal with the above problem, information departments of enterprises are forced to find corresponding solutions. But even if related program modules are available, it is tedious and complicated work for information personnel to install, configure, update, and maintain the application services. Thus, how to simplify the above work so that information personnel can concentrate on higher value-added jobs is a huge challenge. In addition, for ordinary computer users in an enterprise, more dynamic and complicated responsibilities mean that they must apply programs to complete various tasks and solve various problems; thus users must continually switch between different program interfaces to perform different functions. While most enterprises have established their own enterprise information portal (EIP), they still cannot solve the above problems due to the limitations of the client-server architecture. So, how to provide ordinary computer users in an organization with a consistent work interface and a highly autonomous work environment is a challenging issue.
In this paper we propose a general architecture to meet the challenges faced by organizations, information departments, and ordinary users and build a prototype platform to provide different functions to achieve our goal. The prototype platform allows computer peers in enterprises acquire the abilities of self-organization, self-deployment, self-configuration, self-updating, self-uninstallation, self-healing, and self-optimization. Organizations can make use of the platform’s functions to support application services or user interface-related activities. In other words, through the platform system, information departments can easily manage their specific application services; especially those application that make good use of computer resources. Also organizations can reduce expenditure on unnecessary computer equipment due to the functions of the application. For ordinary users, this research not only provides them with consistent user interfaces but also gives them more control over access to information; that is, it provides a user-centered working environment.
Subjects
點對點網路
自主運算
網路服務
入口網站
方針管理
Autonomic Computing
P2P Network
Portal
Policy Management
Web Services
Type
other
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