First Workshop on the Design of Self-Managing Systems

As systems become increasingly connected to an increasingly diverse set of other systems and environments, architects will lose their ability to intricately plan interactions among system components, because an increasing fraction of those interactions will be with foreign and possibly unanticipated systems or components. Humans will be increasingly less competent to install, configure, optimize, maintain, and merge massive, complex, and heterogeneous computing systems. They will not be able to make sufficiently quick, decisive responses to a rapid stream of changing and conflicting demands.