This paper presents a set of techniques for supporting autonomous collaboration—collaboration where participants work independently for periods, and then join together to integr...
The overall goal of this research is to improve the `environment awareness' aspect of personal autonomic computing. Personal Computing offers unique challenges for self-manag...
Enabling a sophisticated Demand Response (DR) framework, whereby individual consumers adapt their electricity consumption in response to price variations, is a major objective of ...
—A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors may still be compatible to its orig...
Lijun Mei, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Robert G. Merkel
An autonomic system is structured as a network of autonomic elements that collaborate to achieve the system’s purpose. This paper examines the potential benefit of using well-es...
David W. Bustard, Roy Sterritt, A. Taleb-Bendiab, ...