Trigger correlation for dynamic system reconfiguration

摘要

A system is reconfigured at runtime when triggers are issued in response to events taking place in the system. The triggers, which are issued on configuration entities, are correlated by transferring relations of the configuration entities to relations of the triggers to thereby identify related triggers. Elasticity rules are selected for the triggers, where the elasticity rules specify actions for resource allocation or deallocation at runtime. Selected actions of the selected elasticity rules for the related triggers are executed to reconfigure the system according to a set of action correlation meta-rules which provide an ordering of the actions.