A system for dynamically managing the resources of a hierarchical organization
includes an organizing processing element, at least one resource and a monitoring
processing element. The organizing processing element capable of creating a maintenance
plan comprising at least one task. Additionally, the organizing processing element
can schedule performance of the tasks of the maintenance plan. The resources are
capable of acting on the at least one task of the maintenance plan at the level
Li to thereby perform the at least one task. And the monitoring processing
element is capable of monitoring the performance of the at least one task at least
partially based upon a status of the at least one task. And, if necessary, based
on the monitoring, the organizing processing element is capable of soliciting available
resources from said organizing processing element at a higher level of the hierarchical organization.