The tremendous development of Internet infrastructures as well as communication
technologies has led to an increase in network management complexity. Autonomic control …

The vision of Autonomic Network Management seeks self-governance (eg self-organisation,
self-management) capabilities amongst network devices and system to minimise …

The proliferation of Internet technologies, services and devices, have made the current
networked system designs, and management tools incapable of designing reliable, secure …

Required or desired behavior of systems and applications can be expressed in terms of
management policies. Such policies can in turn be used to express expected operational …

One of the key motivations for the provisioning of autonomic communication features in next
generation services is to reduce the need of human inference for management tasks. This …

Autonomic network management is a vision that brings autonomic computing principles to
network management. In this vision, the use of policies is a key aspect. Besides, it is …

Policies have been proposed as a means to express required or desired behavior of
systems and applications. Policies can be used within the autonomic management elements …

Autonomic computing and other self-managing system initiatives, many strongly based on
biological metaphors, are emerging as a significant new vision for the design and …

We introduce a unified framework that interrelates three different types of policies that will be
used in autonomic computing system: action, goal, and utility function policies. Our policy …

Autonomic systems are needed to self-manage the increasing complexity of pervasive
communications access and the ubiquitous computing services it offers to humans. Policy …