Towards IT systems capable of managing their health

  • Authors:
  • Selvi Kadirvel;José A. B. Fortes

  • Affiliations:
  • Advanced Computing and Information Systems Lab, NSF Center for Autonomic Computing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida;Advanced Computing and Information Systems Lab, NSF Center for Autonomic Computing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

  • Venue:
  • FOCS'10 Proceedings of the 16th Monterey conference on Foundations of computer software: modeling, development, and verification of adaptive systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Self-caring systems are systems capable of monitoring and managing their own health and, indirectly, their useful lifetime. Unlike self-healing systems which are reactive to faults and failures, self-caring systems are aware of their health and hence can potentially circumvent and adapt to impending faults, or recover from them quicker and more effectively. Towards a methodology to model and incorporate health management logic and control mechanisms into an Information Technology (IT) system whose health needs to be managed, we propose the following: