Towards self-managing systems inspired by economic organizations

Edin Arnautovic, Mathieu Vallée, Sven Volker Rehm, Miriam Müthel, Maurice Mulvenna, Matthias Baumgarten, Vasileios Karyotis, Symeon Papavassiliou, Antonis M. Hadjiantonis, Kostas Stathis

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Abstract

Today's self-managing systems would ideally be able to adapt themselves (their internal structure or behavior), as well as to autonomously participate in larger, self-organizing systems. Analogously, the enterprises or other socio-economic systems autonomously manage themselves - they make decisions on how to adapt their structure and behavior, and how to organize with other entities in the environment. To connect internal self-adaptive with external self-organizational behavior, an enterprise is "aware" of itself and of its environment, and acts according to this awareness. T his position paper proposes to address the challenges of a complex distributed self-managing system by making entities in such a system able to adapt themselves similarly to how companies manage themselves in socio-economic systems. To enable the knowledge transfer between these two fields, the paper proposes to utilize symbolic models which will be used by self-managing systems for knowledge representation and reasoning. This will make such systems in a way also self-aware and enable both self-adaptive and self-organizing capabilities. The paper discusses research directions to make this approach possible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
Pages888-895
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 10 Oct 201013 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period10/10/1013/10/10

Keywords

  • Autonomic computing
  • Economic organizations
  • Self-adaptive systems
  • Self-managing systems
  • Self-organizing systems

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