background: cirrhosis is a pathologically defined entity associated with a spectrumof characteristicmanifestations.the cardinal pathologic features reflect irreversible chronic injury of the hepatic parenchyma and include extensive fibrosis in association with the formation of regenerative nodules.autonomic dysfunction is a frequent and important complication of cirrhosis. the risk of mortality...

This research aims to integrate temporal difference learning methods into an autonomic learning system. The current Rainbow architecture models an adaptation engine that examines the system state to assess problems and determines a best course of action based on pre-programmed expertise. However, when expert knowledge is not readily available for a system, learning proper actions without a prio...

Protecting valuable enterprise assets, such as data, computer systems, and networks is becoming increasingly complex especially in autonomic computing systems due to their reduced reliance on human intervention and verification, and increased reliance on the ability of the system to make business or strategic decisions. This naturally makes the system extremely vulnerable to security breaches a...

In this paper, we present a high-level formalism based on port graph rewriting, strategic rewriting, and rewriting calculus. We show that this formalism is suitable for modeling autonomic systems and we illustrate its expressivity for modeling properties of such systems using an example of a mail delivery system.

SCEL is a new language specifically designed to model autonomic components and their interaction. It brings together various programming abstractions that permit to directly represent knowledge, behaviors and aggregations according to specific policies. It also supports naturally programming self-awareness, context-awareness, and adaptation. In this paper, we first present design principles, sy...

The autonomic computing paradigm has been proposed to cope with size, complexity and dynamism of contemporary softwareintensive systems. The challenge for language designers is to devise appropriate abstractions and linguistic primitives to deal with the large dimension of systems, and with their need to adapt to the changes of the working environment and to the evolving requirements. We propos...

Expansion of software systems in size and complexity during its lifetime business process models has to change to provide analytical insights, to improve and optimize business processes. Business process is always managed, self-adapting and evolving instance. But system management needs additional resources. This paper focuses on enterprise software system integration solutions that had been ev...

The ECAP rule programming language DLRL is currently being developed for architecting autonomic systems by coupling deduction and interaction. Three of the fundamental properties of autonomic systems, namely self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing, are provided by DLRL: high-level program specification that can be userdefined for self-configuration; program introspection that all...

We use the concept of promises to develop a service oriented abstraction of the primitive operations that make an autonomic computer system. Convergent behaviour does not depend on centralized control. We summarize necessary and sufficient conditions for maintaining a convergently enforced policy without sacrificing autonomy of decision, and we discuss whether the idea of versioning control or ...