Meta-coordination of distributed computations

摘要

A method, system, and computer program product for managing individual operations of service providers in a distributed network. The distributed network includes a client having at least one coordination outcome requirement to be satisfied. The invention includes a first determining module configured to determine a set of coordination outcome requirements. A second determining module is configured to determine predefined operation patterns of the service providers. A first observing module is configured to observe client requests for one or more individual operation invocations on the service providers. A second observing module is configured to observe service provider responses to the operation invocations. The invention also includes a coordinating module configured to coordinate the individual operations according to the predefined operation patterns, the client requests, and the service provider responses such that one coordination outcome requirement from the set of coordination outcome requirements is achieved.