Self-Star Properties

'''Self-Stabilization''' refers to a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected faults. '''[[Self-Protection]]''' is finally a property of systems which automatically defend themselves against malicious attacks or cascading failures. It uses early warning to anticipate and prevent systemwide failures. Other useful self-properties are related to analysis and diagnosis: '''Self-Describing''' and '''Self-Explaining''' systems are useful if we want to understand distributed systems which are getting more and more complex. They are also necessary for intelligent autonomous systems with the abilities of self-healing. Less intelligent systems must rely on restart of affected components, which is the foundation of the [[Recovery-Oriented Computing]] (ROC). All these properties are desirable, because the deploying, operating and maintaining of complex systems can be very costly, difficult and expensive. Modern [[Distributed System|distributed systems]] are inherently complex.  

'''Self-Stabilization''' refers to a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected faults. '''[[Self-Protection]]''' is finally a property of systems which automatically defend themselves against malicious attacks or cascading failures. It uses early warning to anticipate and prevent systemwide failures. Other useful self-properties are related to analysis and diagnosis: '''Self-Describing''' and '''Self-Explaining''' systems are useful if we want to understand distributed systems which are getting more and more complex. They are also necessary for intelligent autonomous systems with the abilities of self-healing. Less intelligent systems must rely on restart of affected components, which is the foundation of the [[Recovery-Oriented Computing]] (ROC). All these properties are desirable, because the deploying, operating and maintaining of complex systems can be very costly, difficult and expensive. Modern [[Distributed System|distributed systems]] are inherently complex.  

As the prefix self-* suggests, such self-* properties occur indeed often in self-organizing systems.  

As the prefix self-* suggests, such self-* properties occur indeed often in self-organizing systems.  

The usually involve some form of '''Self-Reference'''. Yet the existing self-* properties of living systems are not exactly identical with the desirable self-* properties of artificial systems. Living systems are characterized by the following self-* properties or self-organizing processes. What all living systems have in common is [[Autopoiesis]] and [[Self-Organization]]. '''[[Self-Regeneration]]''' and '''Self-Reproduction''' can be found even in plants through metabolism and sex (in Greek, 'metabolos' means something fluctuating or changing, that is always changing or in perpetual change)

The usually involve some form of '''Self-Reference'''. Yet the existing self-* properties of living systems are not exactly identical with the desirable self-* properties of artificial systems. Living systems are characterized by the following self-* properties or self-organizing processes. What all living systems have in common is [[Autopoiesis]] and [[Self-Organization]]. '''[[Self-Regeneration]]''' and '''Self-Reproduction''' can be found even in plants through metabolism and sex (in Greek, 'metabolos' means something fluctuating or changing, that is always changing or in perpetual change)