Interwoven Systems: Self-improving Systems Integration

Current trends in information and communication technology show that systems are increasingly influencing each other - which is seldom completely anticipated at design-time. As a result, mastering system integration with traditional methods becomes infeasible due to the resulting complexity. In this paper we argue that self-improving system integration is the most promising solution to counter the resulting challenges. Thereby, we highlight the different aspects of such a process with special attention to the optimisation question and discuss how approaches from the domain of self-organising systems - in particular Organic and Autonomic Computing - will be beneficial when researching possible solutions.