Autonomic agents for survivable security systems

Abstract

Autonomic Systems are essentially about creating self-managing systems based on the biological metaphor of the non-conscious acting autonomie nervous system. The Autonomic initiative has been motivated by ever increasing complexity and total cost of ownership of today's system of systems. Autonomicity also offers inroads in terms of fault-tolerant computing and assisting in creating survivable systems. This paper examines the relevant technologies including Agents for engineering autonomicity and survivability in a secure location biometric system. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.