Robustness and scalability: a dual challenge for autonomic architectures
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
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Feedback loops are largely employed to provide self-management in autonomic computing. However, a drawbackof this approach is that while optimizing, healing andprotecting the system, the feedback loop may itself encounter faults. We find in biological systems a good source of inspiration for designing robust feedback loops for self-adaptive systems. Thus, this paper proposes a multi-agent feedback loop inspired by the organization of ant colonies. Our feedback loop is self-organizing and exhibits emergent qualities: it is very robust and stable.