A Methodology for the Use of the Teleo-Reactive Programming Technique in Autonomic Computing

Previous work on the use of the Teleo-Reactive technique in high level software development has shown it to be a viable approach for autonomic systems. A T-R program can recover from unexpected events without knowing the underlying source or cause of the problem and thus reduces the maintenance costs of software projects where unexpected events are a likely and frequent occurrence. Previous work has also highlighted the difficult nature of designing and structuring the high level logic in a T-R program and so this work aims to reduce the problem by providing a software engineering strategy that will both drive the program development and reduce the occurrence of logic problems.