A Logic-Based Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications

This paper proposes the DALI Multiagent System, which is a logic programming environment for developing agent-based applications, as a tool for component-based software management based on coordination. In particular we show the usefulness of the integration between DALI and the agent-based Lira system, which is a Light-weight Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications. We argue that using intelligent agents for managing component-based software systems makes it possible to: (i) perform monitoring and supervision upon complex properties of a system, such as for instance performance; (ii) perform global reconfigurations dynamically through the cooperation of intelligent agents.