An adaptive resource management approach for a healthcare system

ARMS (Adaptive Resources Management System) represents our solution to address dynamic adaptivity. It defines appropriate abstractions and mechanisms to capture and manage at runtime nonfunctional information about the components of a system and the services they provide. The objectives of ARMS are (1) to identify the most suitable system component able to execute the current service request and (2) to ensure that the required qualities of services are guaranteed during its execution. This paper aims to present the issues raised by applying our ARMS architecture to an actual case study regarding a healthcare system. Attention is focused on how to exploit both domain specific knowledge and system knowledge in the adaptation process. Moreover, we describe three scenarios related to this case study and the problems encountered and addressed through ARMS. Copyright © (2007) by Knowledge Systems Institute (KSI).