@inbook{d5f70b601438408b9a8ef820c4b13f8c,
title = "Distributed monitoring : methods, means and technologies",
abstract = "Monitoring has been described by Joyce et al. as {"}the process of dynamic collection, interpretation and presentation of information concerning objects or software processes under scrutiny{"} [64]. In his book on network and system management, Sloman has later defined distributed monitoring as {"}the essential means for obtaining the information required about the components of a distributed system in order to make management decisions and subsequently control their behavior{"} [72].",
author = "A. Liotta",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4020-7829-3_29",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4020-7746-3",
series = "Intelligent knowledge-based systems : business and technology in the new millennium",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
pages = "223--253",
editor = "{Cornelius T. Leondes}, xx",
booktitle = "Expert and agent systems",
address = "Netherlands",
}