Autonomic computing

• “Technology needs to manage itself” Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM

• Manifesto Paul Horn, IBM http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/autonomic_computing.pdf

• 8 key elements e.g.

  • Self-optimising
  • Self-configuration
  • Self-healing
  • Self-protecting
    

• Should we apply this approach to digital libraries?

  • Improve performance by “intelligent” selection of targets for search requests based on response times

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