Autonomic Computing: The New Vision of Computing

Various projects have been undertaken by various software companies to create the world of self-managing and intelligent computers that requires little or no human interaction. Self-management capabilities include • self-healing • dynamic workload management • self-protection. The intelligent computers would be capable of handling simple tasks, such as • correcting system failures • configuring themselves by installing new operating system software and data automatically • performing a wider variety of tasks, while crashing less often