Adaptive services in a distributed environment

The dynamically changing nature of distributed service environments requires a computing model in which services modify their behavior in order to adapt to changes and fulfill new requirements in the environment. This paper describes design and implementation of the Autonomic Communication Element (ACE) component model with main focus on service adaptability. Autonomic Communication Element (ACE) is a component model developed to support the creation of autonomic communication services which are capable of adapting their behavior according to changes in the context in which they are executing and from which they are requested. In this paper we present our approach for service adaptability and illustrate this on the example of an ACE.