Domains : a uniform approach to distributed system management
Danielle C. Robinson · Spiral (Imperial College London) · 1988
m M a n a g e m e n t We are all dependent on others ("No man is an Island, entire of it self" [John Donne]).There are several people who deserve my thanks for their help in developing the ideas contained in this thesis.Firstly, I wish to thank both my supervisers Morris Sloman and Dennis King for their help and guidance during the course of my research.In particular, I wish to thank Morris Sloman for his frequent and prompt reading of several of my earlier drafts.Both the Special Interest Group on Distributed System Management and the European Computer Manufactures Association TC32-TG2 provided a forum for debating the problems and their solutions to distributed computing systems.I wish to thank my colleagues of these groups for helping me to clarify my ideas.In addition, I wish to thank my col leagues in Project Admiralt for providing an environment to test some of my ideas.I wish to thank my readers, James Bedford-