Self-aware and self-healing computing system

A computer-readable storage medium comprising a computer program stored thereon, said computer program configured be executed by a computing system to perform a method, said method comprising:

• organizing a plurality of microstates of a plurality of components of a computing system into a plurality of macrostates of the computing system, wherein each microstate represents a state that a component of the computing system is able to individually enter, and wherein each macrostate represents a state that the computing system is able to enter as a whole,
• wherein the macrostates are organized into attractors, each attractor being a stable state in which the computing system is stable,
• wherein the macrostates of the computing system are included within a plurality of meta-dynamic states of the computing system subject to each meta-dynamic state being a set of macrostates of the macrostates of the computing system, and
• wherein the method further comprises:
• detecting perturbations of the computing system, wherein a perturbation of the computing system will result in movement thereof to a new meta-dynamic state that is undesirable;
• determining a path to cause the computing system to move back to a desirable meta-dynamic state;
• and
• causing the computing system to move on the path to the desirable meta-dynamic state.

A computing system comprising a computer-readable storage medium, said storage medium comprising a computer program stored thereon, said computer program configured be executed by the computing system to perform a method, said method comprising:

• organizing a plurality of microstates of a plurality of components of a computing system into a plurality of macrostates of the computing system, wherein each microstate represents a state that a component of the computing system is able to individually enter, and wherein each macrostate represents a state that the computing system is able to enter as a whole,
• wherein the macrostates are organized into attractors, each attractor being a stable state in which the computing system is stable,
• wherein the macrostates of the computing system are included within a plurality of meta-dynamic states of the computing system subject to each meta-dynamic state being a set of macrostates of the macrostates of the computing system, and
• wherein the method further comprises:
• detecting perturbations of the computing system, wherein a perturbation of the computing system will result in movement thereof to a new meta-dynamic state that is undesirable;
• determining a path to cause the computing system to move back to a desirable meta-dynamic state;
• and
• causing the computing system to move on the path to the desirable meta-dynamic state.