Abstract:We present a non-analytic approach to self-assessment for Autonomic Computing. Our approach leverages utility functions, at the level of an autonomic application, or even a single task or feature performed by that application. This paper describes the fundamental steps of our approach: instrumentation of the application; collection of exhaustive samples of runtime data about relevant quality attributes of the application, as well as characteristics of its runtime environment; synthesis of a utility function th… Show more
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