A framework for autonomic software

Autonomic computing is gradually becoming accepted as a viable approach to achieving self- management in systems and networks, with the goal of lessening the impact of the complexity crisis on the computing industry. The authors propose the integration of high level self-organisation features into the Application Directed Adaptive Framework (ADAF) which, when embedded into software applications, enables those applications to exhibit autonomic behaviour. This paper briefly discusses the infrastructure of ADAF and demonstrates two self-managing capabilities, namely self- monitoring and self-diagnosis.