A Self-Organizing Feedback Loop for Autonomic Computing

Feedback loops are largely employed to provide self-management in autonomic computing. However, a drawback of this approach is that while optimizing, healing and protecting 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.