@InProceedings{bruhn2008Comprehensive,
  AUTHOR = {Bruhn, Jens and Niklaus, Christian and Vogel, Thomas and
  Wirtz, Guido},
  TITLE = {{Comprehensive support for management of Enterprise
  Applications}},
  YEAR = {2008},
  MONTH = {March},
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference
  on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2008), Doha, Katar},
  PAGES = {755-762},
  PUBLISHER = {IEEE Computer Society},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AICCSA.2008.4493612},
  ABSTRACT = {During the last decades, performance of available hardware
  resources constantly increased, which enabled the assignment of more and
  more complex tasks to software systems. As one consequence, the inherent
  complexity of these software systems also increases, influencing all
  phases of their lifecycle. The concept of Component Orientation (CO)
  allows the development of software systems in a modular way through
  functional decomposition.
  Administration and maintenance of software systems are addressed by
  the vision of Autonomic Computing (AC), based on the idea to assign
  low level administrative tasks to the system itself. With mKernel
  an AC-infrastructure for component oriented enterprise applications
  is provided, based on the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) standard,
  version 3.0. In contrast to existing approaches, the main advantage
  of mKernel lies within its standard compliance, not prescribing
  any additional guidelines for the development of applications to
  enable their autonomous management. It is realized as plugin for an
  existing container, not requiring any adjustment of the underlying
  implementation.
  Moreover, it provides a very fine grained interface for inspection
  and manipulation of the managed system, taking the specifics of the
  supported standard into account. Within this paper we present the
  opportunities provided by mKernel to control a managed system.}
}