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Towards a Framework for the Levels and Aspects of Self-aware Computing Systems

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Increased self-awareness in computing systems can be beneficial in several respects, including a greater capacity to adapt, to build potential for future adaptation in unknown environments, and to explain their behaviour to humans and other systems. When attempting to endow computing systems with a form of self-awareness, it is important to have a clear understanding of what that form looks like. This chapter therefore first introduces the general concept of self-awareness and its various facets. Second, we provide an overview of the range of efforts to interpret the concept of self-awareness in computing. Third, we provide a structured conceptual framework that organizes this variety of different forms of self-awareness. This provides a broad set of concepts and a language that can be used to describe and reason about self-aware computing systems.

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Acknowledgements

Peter Lewis acknowledges the teams of the EPiCS and AWARENESS EU projects, for their contributions to many discussions in the development of the notion of computational self-awareness.

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    Peter Lewis

  2. Aerospace Integration Science Center, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Kirstie L. Bellman & Christopher Landauer

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Lukas Esterle

  4. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Kyrre Glette

  5. Equipe S3, Departement INFRES, Telécom ParisTech, 46 rue Barrault, 75013, Paris, France

    Ada Diaconescu

  6. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Holger Giese

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Lewis, P. et al. (2017). Towards a Framework for the Levels and Aspects of Self-aware Computing Systems. In: Kounev, S., Kephart, J., Milenkoski, A., Zhu, X. (eds) Self-Aware Computing Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47474-8_3

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