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Trading and distributed application management are two research
areas that are strongly related. Trading is a supporting service for
distributed systems that utilizes configuration data and current
state information to mediate services. Distributed application
management collects this information and controls the operation of
the system. An integrated approach has to focus on the collaboration
of both sides. This paper explores some of the arising problems. The
use of configuration information, the notification of events, and
access to dynamic state information requires carefully designed
interaction interfaces to minimize the effects of communication and
distribution on the mediation process. In the other direction,
application management can steer the operation and performance of
the distributed system through influencing the trading process. We
describe our implementation for both approaches and present some
exemplary performance measures.
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