Flexible Architectures and Agents for Adaptive Autonomic Systems

In order to simplify the development of autonomic and autonomous systems, we propose a model of adaptive agent built from fine-grained reusable components which implement non-functional mechanisms such as communication, mobility or adaptation skills. Each agent can dynamically and autonomously change its components to fit its runtime context, improving safety and performance in particular for open, pervasive or large-scale distributed applications. We describe a tool called Agent ^phi for adaptive agent modeling and we present the design of an embedded agent