Towards Reusability in Autonomic Computing

Reusability of software artifacts reduces development time, effort, and error-proneness. Nevertheless, in the development of autonomic systems, developers often start from scratch when building a new system instead of reusing existing components. Many frameworks offer reusability on a higher level of abstraction, but neglect reusability on the lower component implementation level. In this short paper, we present a reusable adaptation logic by separating the generic structure and mechanisms of Autonomic Computing systems from its custom functionality. That is, we provide a reusable communication architecture with abstract component templates that enables a faster development and easier runtime adaptation. We evaluate our approach in a case study with two implementations.