These modules establish an intermediate layer, bridging clients an servers. This mediated architecture can reduce the cost growth of maintenance to a near-linear function of system size, whereas current system architectures have quadratic factors. The models provide also a means for the maintainer to share knowledge with the customer. The customer can become involved in the maintenance of their task models, without having to be familiar with the details of all the resources that are becoming available on our networks. In the presentation we will provide more background on the functionality of mediators, but these will only be touched and referenced within this paper.
Maintenance is the focus here.