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Adaptive reflex autonomicity for real-time systems

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It may appear that for software systems that require strict real-time behavior, the idea of incorporating self-management (and specifically concepts from Autonomic Computing) may add the burden of excessive additional functionality and overhead. However, our experience is that, not only does real-time software benefit from autonomicity, but also the Autonomic Computing initiative (like other initiatives aiming at self-management) requires the expertise of the real-time community in order to achieve its overarching vision. In particular, there are emerging classes of real-time systems for which incorporation of self-management is absolutely essential in order to implement all of the requirements of the system, and in particular the timing requirements.

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  1. University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

    Roy Sterritt

  2. Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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Sterritt, R., Hinchey, M. Adaptive reflex autonomicity for real-time systems. Innovations Syst Softw Eng 5, 107–115 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-009-0090-7

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