Self-Stabilization as a Foundation for Autonomic Computing

This position paper advocates the use of the well defined and provable self-stabilization property of a system, to achieve the goals of the self-* paradigms and autonomic computing. Several recent results starting from hardware concerns, continuing with the operating system, and ending in the applications, are integrated: the self-stabilizing microprocessor, with the self-stabilizing operating system, the self-stabilization preserving compiler, and the self-stabilizing autonomic recoverer for applications