CEYLON: A service-oriented framework for building autonomic managers

The important, ambitious goals of autonomic management applications require complex, adaptable reasoning capabilities that prove extremely difficult to conceive and implement. An increasing number of Autonomic Computing projects have provided partial solutions and studies that brought significant contributions to the understanding of this domain. At the same time, little support is currently available for facilitating the creation of complete autonomic management applications. This paper proposes a solution for the opportunistic integration of specialised autonomic management resources, conceived and implemented as services, so as to obtain complex, adaptable management strategies. The paper introduces an architecture that follows the proposed solution and provides a framework that implements this architecture. The solution's validity is indicated by experimental results obtained by testing the framework prototype on a home security application.