Radical concepts for self-managing ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments

Roy Sterritt, Mike Hinchey

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Abstract

Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (AAS) are essentially concerned with creating self-directed and self-managing systems based on biologically-inspired metaphors such as the mammalian autonomic nervous system. Future Ubiquitous and Pervasive computing environments will depend on such a self-managing infrastructure. Agent technologies have been identified as a key enabler for engineering autonomy and autonomicity in systems, both in terms of retrofitting self-management into legacy systems and designing and developing totally new systems. Handing over responsibility to the systems themselves raises many concerns for humans. This paper reports on the continued investigation into a strand of research on how to engineer selfprotection mechanisms into systems to assist in providing confidence regarding the appropriateness of systems utilizing principles of autonomy and autonomicity. This includes utilizing the apoptosis metaphor to potentially provide a self-destruct signal between autonomic agents as and when needed, and an ALice signal to facilitate self-identification and self-certification between anonymous autonomous agents and systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInnovative Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems - Second International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2005, Revised Papers
Pages370-378
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2005 - Greenbelt, MD, United States
Duration: 20 Sep 200522 Sep 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3825 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, WRAC 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGreenbelt, MD
Period20/09/0522/09/05

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