Computer Science Department
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
A Human Organization Analyogy for Self-* Systems
John D. Strunk*, Gregory R. Ganger
April 2003
This report also appears in the
First Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for
Self-Managing Systems,
in conjunction with the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC),
San Diego, CA. June 11, 2003.
CMU-CS-03-129.ps
CMU-CS-03-129.pdf
The structure and operation of human organizations, such as
corporations, offer useful insights to designers of self-* systems
(a.k.a. self-managing or autonomic). This paper explores the
analogy, and describes the design of a self-* storage system that
borrows from it.
11 pages
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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