Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the
purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In its early days it was criticised as …

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of the goals to be
achieved by the envisioned system, the operationalization of such goals into services and …

A concise and practical introduction to the foundations and engineering principles of self-
adaptation Though it has recently gained significant momentum, the topic of self-adaptation …

The complexity of information systems is increasing in recent years, leading to increased
effort for maintenance and configuration. Self-adaptive systems (SASs) address this issue …

Abstract The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture
has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system …

Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained
architectural elements and their overall interconnection structure. Architecture description …

While attractive in principle, architecture-based self-adaptation raises a number of research
and engineering challenges. First, the ability to handle a wide variety of systems must be …

Software product lines represent perhaps the most exciting paradigm shift in software
development since the advent of high-level programming languages. Nowhere else in …

We structure complex systems as sets of simpler activities, each represented as a sequential
process. Processes can overlap or be concurrent, so as to reflect the concurrency inherent in …

Self-management is put forward as one of the means by which we could provide systems
that are scalable, support dynamic composition and rigorous analysis, and are flexible and …