Synergistic Impacts of Domain-Spanning Conceptual Design on Control of Self-Optimizing Systems

Self-optimizing systems are technical systems with the ability to learn, communicate with each other, and optimize their behavior autonomously in response to environmental changes. The development of such systems demands new means of communication and cooperation between the specialists from diverse disciplines, especially during the conceptual design phase. The principle solution, as the result of conceptual design, should be formulated in a domain-spanning way and yet supports domain-specific concretization. In this endeavor, this paper addresses the domain-spanning specification technique for describing the principle solution of self-optimizing systems and explains how the domain-specific controller design process can be started in an integrative way. The synergistic impacts enabled by the principle solution are described from the viewpoints of complexity management, performance enhancement, and potential cost reduction along the controller design process.