Includes contributions by some leading authorities in the field of Awareness Systems

This book provides formal and informal definitions and taxonomies for self-aware computing systems, and explains how self-aware computing relates to many existi

It is becoming quite clear that there will be important technological advances in - bile and wireless connectivity, known as third-/fourth-generation (3G and 4G

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Taking inspiration from self-awareness in humans, this book introduces the new notion of computational self-awareness as a fundamental concept for designing and