Hybrid agent & component-based management of backchannels

This paper describes the use of the SoSAA software framework to implement the hybrid management of communication channels (backchannels) across a distributed software system. SoSAA is a new integrated
architectural solution enabling context-aware, open and adaptive software while preserving system modularity
and promoting the re-use of existing component-based and agent-oriented frameworks and associated
methodologies. In particular, we show how SoSAA can be used to orchestrate the adoption of network adapter
components to bind functional components that are distributed across different component contexts. Both the
performance of the different computational nodes involved and the efficiencies and faults in the underlying
transport layers are taken into account when deciding which transport mechanisms to use.