The automated identification of network service dependencies remains a challenging
problem in the administration of large distributed systems. Advances in developing solutions …

Distributed applications can be seen as complex pieces of software which are distributed
across various heterogeneous end systems in a network. Mostly, they rely on the provision …

Nowadays, numerous enterprises are migrating their applications into cloud computing
environments. Typically, the applications are composed of several dependent service …

This paper addresses the role of dependency analysis in distributed management. It
introduces the concept of dependency lifetime that traces the flow of dependency …

Service providers typically define quality of service problems using threshold tests, such as"
are HTTP operations greater than 12 per second on server XYZ?" This paper explores the …

Enterprise networks today host a wide variety of network services, which often depend on
each other to provide and support network-based services and applications. Understanding …

We describe a novel approach for applying XML, XPath, and Resource Description
Framework (RDF) to the problem of describing, querying and computing the dependencies …

We describe an architecture and its implementation for retrieving and handling dependency
information from various managed resources in a Web-based environment. The core of our …

The discovery of dependencies between components of a network can reveal relationships
among components of multi-tier applications and the underlying IT infrastructure, such as …

This paper addresses the role of dependency analysis in distributed management. The
identification of dependencies becomes increasingly important in today's networked …