Context-aware wireless mobile autonomic computing and communications: Research trends and emerging applications

A growing attention has been recently devoted to Context-Aware Computing and Communication systems, in particular for what concerns their evolution toward the new paradigm of Context-Aware Autonomic Computing and Communications. Indeed, context awareness and autonomicity appear to be the indispensable glue technologies to accomplish an efficient integration of modern software-intensive, cyber-physical systems, operating in open and non-deterministic environments, and to master their complexity. This paper provides an update on latest developments in this field. Proposed methodologies and techniques are discussed and framed in the overall research problem. Moreover, future trends and research challenges are outlined by relating the basic concepts of Context-Aware Autonomic Computing and Communications to the emerging paradigm of Self-Aware Internet of Things, whose applications appear to be very promising examples of next-generation computing and communication systems.