Autonomic computing: emerging trends and open problems

ABSTRACT

The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism and interconnectivity in software applications, services and networks led to complex, unmanageable and insecure systems. Coping with such a complexity necessitates to investigate a new paradigm namely Autonomic Computing. Although academic and industry efforts are beginning to proliferate in this research area, there are still a lots of open issues that remain to be solved. This paper proposes a categorization of complexity in I/T systems and presents an overview of autonomic computing research area. The paper also discusses a summary of the major autonomic computing systems that have been already developed both in academia and industry, and finally outlines the underlying research issues and challenges from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.1 INTRODUCTORY AND SURVEY

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management

General Terms:
Design, Management

Keywords:
autonomic computing, software engineering, software management