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Autonomic Management capabilities become increasingly important for attaining functional and quality goals in software systems. Nonetheless, successful Autonomic Management solutions must feature complex, adaptive behaviors, which remain difficult to conceive and control. This paper proposes a generic approach and a reusable framework for the construction of Autonomic Manager applications. The presented solution advocates creating Autonomic Management behaviors via the dynamic and opportunistic integration of individual management strategies. The provided framework proposes a general architecture and a common infrastructure for supporting the presented approach. A sample Autonomic Manager was built using the framework with several management strategies and was successfully tested in an experimental scenario.

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International audienceThe ambitious goals of autonomic management require complex, adaptable processing capabilities that prove extremely difficult to conceive and implement. This paper proposes a solution for the opportunistic integration of specialised autonomic management resources, so as to obtain complex, adaptable management strategies. The paper introduces an architecture that follows the proposed solution and provides a reusable framework that implements this architecture. The solution's validity is indicated by experimental results obtained by testing the framework prototype on a sample home security application