Fundamentals of autonomic communications: principles for building autonomic systems

This book will serve as a comprehensive introduction to and reference for autonomic communication and systems. Autonomic technologies are designed to manage the increasing business, system, and technical complexity of computing systems. Systems built from these technologies are self-governing, and exhibit self-configuration, self-healing, and other capabilities. More importantly, autonomic systems reconnect business needs and objectives with the management of the underlying technology used to build them. This is the first reference book that explains how to build autonomic systems, and uses a set of real-world examples to blend academic theory with industrial practice and experience. This is augmented with code, models and/or specifications from each example, along with a rich set of references to guide the reader in further learning. Related topics, such as the evolution of communications to address Future Internet solutions, are also covered.

PART I. FOUNDATIONS. Chapter 1: System Requirements Revisited. Chapter 2: Information, Data, and Object Modeling. Chapter 3: Component and system Modeling. Chapter 4: Framework Services. Chapter 5: Policy Management and Governance. Chapter 6: State Machines. Chapter 7: Semantics. PART II. COMMUNICATION. Chapter 8: Sensors and Effectors. Chapter 9: Control Loops. Chapter 10: Software Contracts. Chapter 11: Business-Enabled Services. PART III. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE. Chapter 12: Components. Chapter 13: Context and Context-Awareness. Chapter 14: Machine Learning and Reasoning. Chapter 15: Building Reusable Behavior. Chapter 16: Case Study: the FOCALE Autonomic Architecture. PART IV. Blueprint for Building Real Systems. Chapter 17: Development Methodology. Chapter 18: Case Study: Tools for Building Real Systems. Chapter 19: Case Study: The FAME Project. Chapter 20: Scrying into the Future. APPENDICES. Appendix 1: Related Work from Standards Defining Organizations. Appendix 2: Conferences to Attend and Journals to Read.