Agenda 2001
Explanatory Notes
An autonomic computing system must know its environment and the context surrounding its activity, and act accordingly. It will find and generate rules for how best to interact with neighboring systems, tap available resources, even negotiate the use by other systems of its underutilized elements, changing both itself and its environment in the process — in a word, adapting. This context-sensitivity includes improving service based on knowledge about the context of a transaction
An autonomic computing system also cannot exist effectively in a hermetic environment. While independent in its ability to manage itself, it must function in a heterogeneous world and implement open standards — in other words, an autonomic computing system cannot, by definition, be a proprietary solution.
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