Autonomic Computing is a novel initiative adopted by industries and organizations world-wide which aims to help address complexity is today’s IT systems. The term is derived from human biology, where the autonomic nervous system monitors corporal stimuli without the need to contact the central nervous system. Likewise, it’s the goal of Autonomic Computing to breed novel software solutions that ...

We describe a novel approach to scheduling resolution by combining Autonomic Computing (AC), Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques (NIT). Autonomic Computing has emerged as paradigm aiming at embedding applications with a management structure similar to a central nervous system. A natural Autonomic Computing evolution in relation to Current Computing is to provid...

NASA’s new age of space exploration augurs great promise for deep space exploration missions whereby spacecraft should be independent, autonomous, and smart. Nowadays NASA increasingly relies on the concepts of autonomic computing, exploiting these to increase the survivability of remote missions, particularly when human tending is not feasible. Autonomic computing has been recognized as a prom...

Autonomic computing aims to deal with the complexity of todays systems by letting the system handle the complexity autonomously. This is a very hard and challenging domain because current systems are complex, distributed, interconnected and rapidly changing systems. We firmly belief that a main challenge in conquering autonomic systems is the integration of three existing research communities: ...

The vision of autonomic computing raises fundamental questions about how we interact with computer systems. In this paper, we attempt to make a start at addressing these questions by outlining their character and proposing some strategies for understanding them better. We take systems management as an activity in which to explore these issues and examine the problem of how we may make autonomic...

The vision of autonomic computing raises fundamental questions about how we interact with computer systems. In this paper, we outline these questions and propose some strategies for addressing them. In particular, we examine the problem of how we may make autonomic computing systems accountable in interaction for their behaviour. We conclude that there is no technological solution to this probl...

To overcome increasing complexity and dynamic nature of distributed computing system, such as ubiquitous computing systems, it is critical to have computing systems that can manage themselves according to their users’ goals. Such systems are called autonomic computing systems. It is essential that such systems, especially those for critical applications, have the capability of self-protection f...

In October, 2001, IBM released a manifesto [1] that defined autonomic computing, a new approach to coping with the rapidly growing complexity of integrating, configuring and operating computing systems. This article elaborates further on IBM’s vision of autonomic computing. We speculate about general architectural features that might typify autonomic, or self-managing, systems of the future, an...

Autonomic Computing is emerging as a significant new approach in the design of computing systems. Its overall goal is the creation of Self-Managing Systems. In order to achieve this, Hard and So3 Computing are required. The benefits from utilizing Soy Computing include their ability to handle imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth that is inherently present in any complex real world problem...

Management complexity of Smart Space environments increases with advances in pervasive computing domains. Extensive research work has been carried out to demonstrate the power of pervasive computing across a wide spectrum of domains. This research shows the significance of pervasive computing and it also highlights the complexity issues in the development, deployment and maintenance of such env...