Brief announcement: towards interoperability standards and services for autonomic systems

This paper advocates a generic, standardised approach to the problem of interoperability and proposes introduction of a centralised Interoperability Service (IS) with which Autonomic Managers (AM) register their management interests and capabilities, using a standardised management description language. A fuzzy mapping technique is used to identify potential conflicts of management interest in a conflict-risk model. The main contribution of this work is that the interoperability support is integrated into autonomic components making them interoperability ready in advance of their deployment