“…The topic of AC has seen a number of developments through various research investigations following the IBM initiative such as AC paradigm in [5][6][7][8][9]; different approaches and infrastructures in [10][11][12][13][14] for enabling autonomic behaviors [15][16][17][18]; core enabling systems, technologies, and services in [19][20][21][22][23][24] to support the realization of self-*properties in autonomic systems and applications; specific realizations of self-*properties in autonomic systems and applications in [25][26][27][28][29][30][31]; architectures and modeling strategies of autonomic networks in [32][33][34]; middleware and service infrastructure as facilitators of autonomic communications in [35][36][37]; approaches in [38][39][40] to equipping current networks with autonomic functionality for migrating this type of networks to autonomic networks.…”