or information systems of state administration) and due to the possibilities offered by new middleware and by powerful network technologies. It is now technically feasible to interconnect large autonomous software units (autonomous components) being (almost) complete applications. It brings new quality to users

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of the Software as a Service (SaaS), Self-healed and self-adapted Autonomic Components using highly optimized, secured, and expressiveness context formal language.

Abstract. Ensembles of autonomic components are a novel software engineering paradigm for development of open-ended distributed highly dynamic software systems (e.g. smart cyber-physical systems). Recent research centered around the concept of ensemble-based systems resulted in design

Abstract: In this paper, a dynamically customizable framework for supporting the autonomy of components is introduced. To implement autonomous components, the framework adopts an approach to repacking existing components. By combining Agent technology into components, the framework can customize

are not satisfactory enough yet and many are missing. Key words: Autonomous components, message oriented middleware, middleware orientation, message formats, XML, wide area information systems. 1 Introduction. Information systems are always more and more complex. The number of functions increases, the functions

management strategy are kept separate. This simplifies the manager design as well as user customization of autonomic manager policies. We briefly introduce rule-based autonomic managers. Then we discuss an implementation of a GCM-like behavioural skeleton – a composite component modelling a standard

Autonomic management can improve the QoS provided by parallel/distributed applications. Within the CoreGRID Component Model, the autonomic management is tailored to the automatic – monitoring-driven – alteration of the component assembly and, therefore, is defined as the effect of (distributed

In this paper we describe an on-going research work (MEDEA project) whose final goal is to develop a general framework to build open ITS.

Abstract. This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both structural changes in business processes and changes in system parameters, such as the number of available