Some aspects of autonomic computing systems user interfaces

Abstract

The main goal of autonomic computing is to make systems more simple. Even so the human presence will not be completely removed. System administrators maintaining and monitoring large autonomic systems, users making their usual works helped by autonomic personal computers, humans will always be a part of computational process. Autonomic actions performed by the system must be understandable and user should be capable of reviewing and changing the state of the system. In order to achieve this level of transparency different scale of system state details will be required. The ability of system to explain what is happening in the situation that most of actions and decisions are made autonomously is a serious issue. This paper presents some aspects and concepts of autonomic computing systems user interfaces taking into account autonomic nature of them.