This book will serve as a comprehensive introduction to and reference for autonomic communication and systems. Autonomic technologies are designed to manage the increasing business, system, and technical complexity of computing systems. Systems built from these technologies are self-governing, and exhibit self-configuration, self-healing, and other capabiltiies. More importantly, autonomic systems reconnect business needs and objectives with the management of the underlying technology used to build them. This is the first reference book that explains how to build autonomic systems, and uses a set of real-world examples to blend academic theory with industrial practice and experience. This is augmented with code, models and/or specifications from each example, along with a rich set of references to guide the reader in further learning. Related topics, such as the evolution of communications to address Future Internet solutions, are also covered.

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1: System Requirements Revisited
Chapter 2: Information, Data, and Object Modeling
Chapter 3: Component and system Modeling
Chapter 4: Framework Services
Chapter 5: Policy Management and Governance
Chapter 6: State Machines
Chapter 7: Semantics

PART TWO: COMMUNICATION
Chapter 8: Sensors and Effectors
Chapter 9: Control Loops
Chapter 10: Software Contracts
Chapter 11: Business-Enabled Services
PART THREE: SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Chapter 12: Components
Chapter 13: Context and Context-Awareness
Chapter 14: Machine Learning and Reasoning
Chapter 15: Building Reusable Behavior
Chapter 16: Case Study: the FOCALE Autonomic Architecture

PART FOUR: Blueprint for Building Real Systems
Chapter 17: Development Methodology
Chapter 18: Case Study: Tools for Building Real Systems
Chapter 19: Case Study: The FAME Project
Chapter 20: Scrying into the Future

APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Related Work from Standards Defining Organizations
Appendix 2: Conferences to Attend and Journals to Read