A configuration (pq, nk) is a collection of p points and n straight lines in the Euclidean plane so that every point has q straight lines passing through it and every line has k points lying on it. A configuration is astral if it has precisely b q+1 2 c symmetry classes (transitivity classes) of lines and bk+1 2 c symmetry classes of points. An even astral configuration is an astral configurati...

Currently Configuration Management (CM) tool and Process Management (PM) tool are both largely applied in software organizations. However, neither of them can effectively support the complex evolutions in today’s software development solely. So we must integrate CM and PM together to provide a systematic framework for managing evolutions. This paper introduces a configuration management framewo...

The increased complexity, heterogeneity and the dynamism of networked systems and applications make current configuration and management tools to be ineffective. A new paradigm to dynamically configure and manage large-scale complex and heterogeneous networked systems is critically needed. In this dissertation, we present a self configuration paradigm based on the principles of autonomic comput...

Current networks require ad-hoc operating procedures by expert administrators to handle changes. These configuration management operations are costly and error prone. Active networks[2, 3] involve particularly fast dynamics of change that cannot depend on operators and must be automated. This paper describes an architecture called NESTOR that seeks to replace labor-intensive configuration manag...

This article discusses an activity that is one of the least appealing to those installing infrastructure systems, and at the same time one of the most necessary to those maintaining these systems: documenting hardware and software configurations. Technically brilliant personnel historically lack the talent or the desire, or both, to clearly document the complexities of their work in a simple, s...

The data models of a series of 11 configuration management systems—of varying type and complexity—are represented using containment data models. Containment data models are a specialized form of entityrelationship model in which entities may be containers or atoms, and the only permitted form of relationship is inclusion or referential containment. By using entities to represent the native abst...

This paper describes an environment for interactive configuration management of the software components comprising a distributed enterprise application. The environment permits one or more managers to view and modify the structure of components in terms of component instances, their allocation to hardware nodes and the bindings between their interfaces. Our graphical management is based upon th...

The explosion of information and integration of technology into everyday life has brought on new demands for how people manage and maintain computer systems. Demand is already outpacing supply when it comes to managing complex computer systems. There are burst of activities to ease the burden of configuration management such as autonomic computing. In this paper, we address fundamental theory o...

Distribution of product updates to embedded devices can increase product lifetimes for consumers and boost revenues for vendors. Dynamic provisioning of application solutions to embedded devices are complex due to their heterogeneous nature. This paper proposes a configuration management architectural framework which incorporates a mobile agent based push methodology for networked reconfigurabl...

Software development is becoming a more and more distributed process, which urgently needs supporting tools in the field of configuration management, software process/workflow management, communication and problem tracking. In this paper we present a new distributed software configuration management framework COMAND. It offers high availability through replication and a mechanism to easily chan...