Self-healing concrete (SHC) has received a tremendous attention due to its advanced ability of automatic crack detection and crack repairing compared to the standard concrete. Two main approaches which considered as to-date self-healing mechanisms are autogenous and autonomous healing. In the past several years, the effort of the research has been focused on experimental works instead of numeri...

As self-management features of computer systems depend on self-knowledge we have to cope with the issue that most large systems are not entirely known to the self-management software. Especially when system parts are supplied by external companies which want to preserve their intellectual property we have to cope with black-box components. This paper presents a novel approach for self-healing i...

Systems designed to be self-healing are able to heal themselves at runtime in response to changing environmental or operational circumstances. Thus, the goal is to avoid catastrophic failure through prompt execution of remedial actions. This paper proposes a self-healing mechanism that monitors, diagnoses and heals its own internal problems using self-awareness as contextual information. The se...

One of the potential approaches to achieving dependable system operation is to incorporate so-called “self-healing” mechanisms into system architectures and implementations. A previous workshop on this topic exposed a wide diversity of researcher perspectives on what self-healing systems really are. This paper proposes a taxonomy for describing the problem space for self-healing systems includi...

One of the potential approaches to achieving dependable system operation is to incorporate so-called “self-healing” mechanisms into system architectures and implementations. A previous workshop on this topic exposed a wide diversity of researcher perspectives on what self-healing systems really are. This paper proposes a taxonomy for describing the problem space for self-healing systems includi...

When engineering self-healing systems, inspiration can be sought from nature. Biological organisms present proven self-healing models that have been developed during millions of years of evolution. In this paper common self-healing properties found in nature are described. A programming paradigm inspired by properties of the biological cell is discussed, and a software architecture for distribu...

In the context of pervasive healthcare systems there is a growing need of services that are constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present a distributed pervasive infrastructure that is capable of self-healing one or more of its parts when an external event causes a disruption of the service in the areas covered by the pervasive system. We u...

The paper addresses the methods of description of friction-induced self-healing at the interface between two solid bodies. A macroscopic description of self-healing is based on a Turing system for the transfer of matter that leads to self-organization at the interface in the case of an unstable state. A microscopic description deals with a kinetic model of the process and entropy production dur...

The main objective of a self healing scheme is to share and secure the information of any system at the same time. “Self-healing” techniques ultimately are dependable computing techniques. Specifically self-healing systems have to think for itself without human input, able to boot up backup systems. However, sharing and protection are two contradictory goals. Protection programs may be complete...

For a system to be capable of self-healing, the system must be able to detect what has gone wrong and how to correct it. This paper presents a generic modeling framework to facilitate the development of self-healing software systems. A model-based approach is used to categorize software failures and specify their dispositions at the model level. Self-healing is then achieved by transforming the...