Self-healing represents a new paradigm for active and responsive materials. As first demonstrated by White et al., and subsequently in additional publications, polymer composites can be engineered to chemically self-heal. However, the chemistry of previous systems possesses inherent shortcomings due to the potential side reactions with the polymer matrix and air. Here we present a new, chemical...

We consider building a Grid Operating System in order to relieve users and programmers from the burden of dealing with the highly distributed and volatile resources of computational grids. To tolerate the volatility of the nodes, the system should be self-healing, that is continuously adapt to additions, removals, and failures of nodes. We present the self-healing architecture of the Vigne Grid...

Self-diagnostics and prognostics in multi-agent processing systems is explored in the context of selfsoothing concepts in Neuropsychology. The use of emotional memory and autonomic nervous state recall can be used to provide contextual cognition for system-level diagnostic and prognostics in large-scale systems. The use of an Artificial Cognitive Neural Framework with intelligent information so...

The introduction of self-* properties has been proven to be a feasible approach for the management demands of Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs). Among the properties of the self-* management vision, self-healing figures as a key property in improving the dependability of the managed infrastructures. An interesting possibility to materialize self-* support in delaytolerant management is through the...

Living organisms demonstrate through millions of years evolution remarkably fault-tolerance, robustness and self-healing abilities. Taking inspiration from biological immune systems and embryonic processes which acquire some of these fault-tolerant properties, the paper presents the implementation of an embryonic machine with FPGA-based multi cellular architecture, which is able to imitate cell...

Autonomic Computing is a promising new concept in system development. It aims to (i) increase reliability by designing systems to be self-protecting and self-healing; and (ii) increase autonomy and performance by enabling systems to adapt to changing circumstances, using self-configuring and self-optimizing mechanisms. This paper discusses the type of system architecture needed to support such ...

Severe wounds in biological systems such as human skin cannot heal themselves, unless they are first stitched together. Healing of macroscopic damage in thermoset polymer composites faces a similar challenge. Stimuli-responsive shape-changing polymeric fibres with outstanding mechanical properties embedded in polymers may be able to close macro-cracks automatically upon stimulation such as heat...

Heterogeneity, mobility, complexity and new application domains raise new software reliability issues that cannot be met cost-effectively only with classic software engineering approaches. Self-healing systems can successfully address these problems, thus increasing software reliability while reducing maintenance costs. Self-healing systems must be able to automatically identify runtime failure...