The dawning of the autonomic computing era

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-18

  Ganek, Alan G ^a   Corbi, Thomas A ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; STANDARDS;

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037236308     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.421.0005     Document Type: Review

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