The rising complexity of distributed computer systems give reason to investigate self-organization mechanism to build systems that are self-managing in the sense of Autonomic and Organic Computing.
In this paper we propose the Artificial Hormone System (AHS) as a general…

Object-oriented frameworks are, perhaps, the most important reuse technology today available. This is so, because they enable the reuse of both code and design. However, the effective use of frameworks to instantiate new applications represents one of the most limiting…