Multi-agent system based autonomic computing environment

Autonomic computing is a computing system that can manage itself by self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection. With the nature of autonomy, reactivity, sociality, and pro-activity, software agents are promising to make autonomic computing system a reality. We present our approach to implement an autonomic computing infrastructure MAACE that provides dynamically programmable control and management services to support the development and deployment of smart (intelligent) applications. The MAACE provides the environment to manage and control software system by multi-agent systems cooperation, which includes agent federation system, agent mediate services system and agent monitor system. We have successfully implemented a proof-of-concept prototype system that can support the self-configuring, and self-healing of any networked application.