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The standard definition of autonomics is that of self-governance, including such properties as self-configuring, self-healing and self-optimizing. To really enable self-anything, however, we must first deliver another ‘self-’ property – self-knowledge. We define self-knowledge as information about a system enabling it to reason on its own capabilities and actions. This knowledge can come in many forms but we propose that there are essentially two key elements: knowledge of the individual parts of the system, and knowledge about the rules that determine the interaction of these system components. This paper presents a model describing self-knowledge, with policy for defining rules and profiles to express the individual entities knowledge.
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Carroll, R., Strassner, J., Cox, G., van der Meer, S. (2006). Policy and Profile: Enabling Self-knowledge for Autonomic Systems. In: State, R., van der Meer, S., O’Sullivan, D., Pfeifer, T. (eds) Large Scale Management of Distributed Systems. DSOM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11907466_22
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