Trends in networking and distributed computing are creating a new generation of applications that must adapt as the environment within which they execute changes. Examples of adaptation include switching protocols to overcome a security exposure or failure mode seen only in certain settings, changing data rates to accommodate a slow link, or adapting the behavior of a high level application to match the set of participants using the application. We describe the Ensemble system, a tool for building adaptive distributed programs. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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