Abstract
A 2001 IBM manifesto observed that a looming software complexity crisis -caused by applications and environments that number into the tens of millions of lines of code - threatened to halt progress in computing. The manifesto noted the almost impossible difficulty of managing current and planned computing systems, which require integrating several heterogeneous environments into corporate-wide computing systems that extend into the Internet. Autonomic computing, perhaps the most attractive approach to solving this problem, creates systems that can manage themselves when given high-level objectives from administrators. Systems manage themselves according to an administrator's goals. New components integrate as effortlessly as a new cell establishes itself in the human body. These ideas are not science fiction, but elements of the grand challenge to create self-managing computing systems.
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Computer scienceAutonomic computingIBMManifestoCloud computingEnd-user computingSoftwareUbiquitous computingData scienceComputer securityUtility computingHuman–computer interactionDistributed computingSoftware engineeringCloud computing securityOperating system
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- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41-50
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- 6310
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Jeffrey O. Kephart,
David M. Chess
(2003).
The vision of autonomic computing.
Computer
, 36
(1)
, 41-50.
https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.2003.1160055
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- DOI
- 10.1109/mc.2003.1160055