The concept of autonomic computing seeks to reduce the complexity of pervasively ubiquitous system management and maintenance by shifting the responsibility for low-level tasks from humans to the system while allowing humans to concentrate on high-level tasks. This is achieved by building self-managing systems that are generally capable of self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimising, and self-protecting.

• Chapter 1: Trustworthy autonomics primer
• Chapter 2: Evolution of autonomic computing
• Chapter 3: Autonomic enabling techniques
• Chapter 4: Trustworthy autonomic computing
• Chapter 5: Trustworthy autonomic architecture implementations
• Chapter 6: Multi-agent interoperability
• Chapter 7: Level of autonomicity
• Chapter 8: Conclusions and future work