Autonomic Computing Rebooted: Taming the Computing Continuum

Technological advances and rapid service deployments have resulted in a pervasive and interconnected computing continuum , which is enabling new classes of application formulations and workflows, delivering novel services to consumers, and is becoming a core engine for discovery, innovation, and economic growth. The computing continuum is also unleashing new system and application management challenges, which must be addressed before its potential and promises are truly realized. Autonomic computing can provide the abstractions and mechanisms essential to effectively harnessing the computing continuum, but must evolve to address these new challenges. This paper is a call to action for rebooting autonomics to enable us to harness the computing continuum.