Abstract. Pervasive computing applications must be sufficiently autonomous to adapt their behaviour to changes in computing resources and user requirements. This capability is know...
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
The paper discusses the potential usage of principles from General System Theory (GST) and Cybernetics for design of Autonomic Software. Motivated by the characteristics of open s...
Emil A. Stoyanov, Dieter Roller, Markus Alexander ...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
This paper describes SymbioticSphere, a novel biologically-inspired architecture that allows grid systems (application services and middleware platforms) to be scalable and adapti...