Abstract
Industrial-strength software is reaching a level of inherent complexity
which tends to make an effective development, deployment and administration
impossible. This has led to a rapidly growing interest in the
notion of autonomous software, that is, software which takes over, and
encapsulates, action choice and responsibility from its users and operators
so that it can handle its complexity on its own. A key condition for
the broad acceptance of autonomous software is the availability of a clear
notion of autonomy as a software property upon which precise specification
schemes for autonomous software systems can be build. There are
diverse approaches available in computer science that are useful in this
respect. This chapter describes a generic autonomy specification framework
which gives an integrated view of these approaches and of the state
of the art in specifying autonomy as a software property
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Vol 3: Recent Advances |
| Editors | S K Chang |
| Publisher | World Scientific |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-981-4480-70-3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-981-256-273-9 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2005 |