Autonomic networks: Engineering the self-healing property

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 727-739

  Sterritt, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic communications; Autonomic networks; Development framework; Development tools; Event correlation; Problem determination; Root cause analysis; Self healing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SWITCHING;

AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATIONS; AUTONOMIC NETWORKS; EVENT CORRELATION; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 9944247086     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.08.028     Document Type: Article

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