Creating Complex, Adaptable Management Strategies via the Opportunistic Integration of Decentralised Management Resources

The ambitious goals of autonomic management require complex, adaptable processing capabilities that prove extremely difficult to conceive and implement. This paper proposes a solution for the opportunistic integration of specialised autonomic management resources, so as to obtain complex, adaptable management strategies. The paper introduces an architecture that follows the proposed solution and provides a reusable framework that implements this architecture. The solution's validity is indicated by experimental results obtained by testing the framework prototype on a sample home security application.