Self-Management Considerations in Designing a Pervasive Multimodal Multimedia Computing System

The ever-growing complexity of information system demands that the system or its components to be built are self-managing. Self-management connotes that a computing system or its components are able to self-govern with no or very little interventions from the user. In effect, self-management means that it is capable of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-protection, and self-healing. The system being considered in this paper is one which detects the user´s context (and if applicable, the user disability as well) and decides the media and modalities that are appropriate for such a context. The paradigm of the system is presented through architectural views. Several tactics to achieve self-management are adapted