Knowledge Representation and Awareness in Autonomic Service-Component Ensembles - State of the Art

Knowledge is the source of intelligence and both knowledge representation and knowledge management are crucial for intelligent systems. Well employed knowledge helps such systems become aware of situations, recognize states and eventually respond to changes. This paper presents our vision of knowledge representation and awareness in mobile swarm systems formed as open-ended ensembles of special autonomic components. Such components encapsulate rules, constraints and mechanisms for self-management and acquire and process knowledge about themselves, other service components and their environment. In this paper, we present our approach to high-level model of structured knowledge and a formal model of awareness in such autonomic service-component ensembles.