Guest Editors' Introduction: Autonomic Computing

Autonomic computing systems are self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-organizing, self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-protecting, and they can address quality of-service, failure-recovery, and security issues with minimal human intervention.

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