Towards introspectable, adaptable and extensible autonomic managers

In this paper, we propose an architecture for building adaptable, extensible and introspectable autonomic managers. In that purpose, we introduce the concept of administration tasks: very specialized components that are opportunistically assembled into autonomic control loops. We discussed particularly the possibility of monitoring and modifying the managers' behaviours at runtime. Our architecture has been implemented as a service oriented framework using iPOJO/OSGi technologies and tested on a sample application pertaining to home automation.