Managing a Posteriori Federations
Craig A. Lee · 2017
Federation is generally used to denote collaboration between IT systems in different administrative domains to achieve common goals. Different administrative domains are typically distinct and loosely coupled by definition. While domains may have some degree of self-awareness, their awareness of other domains may be weak or non-existent. Hence, there is a fundamental challenge concerning how to build and establish a federation among domains that is self-integrating and self-improving without relying on a priori information. Note the "self" we are referring to here is the aggregate federation, and not necessarily any one domain. This position paper endeavors to identity the key issues for managing a posteriori federations, i.e., ones that do not rely on a priori information.