Policies form an important part of management activities and are an effective means of
implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Many policy-based systems designed to …

Ubiquitous systems and applications involve interactions between multiple autonomous
entities—for example, robots in a mobile ad-hoc network collaborating to achieve a goal …

The advent of mobile and ubiquitous systems has enabled the development of autonomous
systems such as wireless-sensors for environmental data collection and teams of …

The management of clouds comprised of hundreds of hosts and virtual machines present
challenging problems to administrators in ensuring that performance agreements are met …

In this paper we address some of the main challenges in collaboration between different
autonomic managers in a policy-based management environment. We focus on three main …

Research in pervasive and autonomic computing focuses on supporting services for
pervasive applications, but often ignores how such applications can be realised through the …

Self-Managed Cells (SMCs) define an infrastructure for building ubiquitous computing
applications. An SMC consists of an autonomous administrative domain based on a policy …

This paper defines an operational framework for specifying and establishing secure
collaborations between autonomous entities that need to interact and depend on each other …

Many missions are deemed dangerous or impractical to perform by humans, but can use
collaborating, self-managing unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) which adapt their …

An increasingly common solution for systems which are deployed in unpredictable or
dangerous environments is to provide the system with an autonomous or selfmanaging …