Adaptive configuration of conflicting applications

A system for adaptive program configuration comprising:

• a software agent embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to
• collect system configuration information from a local computer system, the configuration information includes system hardware and software information;
• monitor system resource utilization during execution on the computer system of a first program and one or more second programs;
• determine when the monitored system resource utilization exceeds one or more critical levels for a predetermined period of time;
• and
• change configuration settings of the first program to reduce system resource utilization below the one or more critical levels;
• and
• a decision engine embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to
• determine the one or more critical levels of system resource utilization by applying fuzzy logic rules to the collected system configuration information;
• determine, based on the collected software information, whether the first program conflicts with execution of one or more second programs;
• and
• determine configuration settings for the first program to resolve conflicts with the one or more conflicting second programs that are harmless to the computer system, thereby reducing system resource utilization below critical levels.

A computer program product embedded in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions for:

• collecting system configuration information from a computer system, the configuration information includes system hardware and software information;
• monitoring system resource utilization during execution on the computer system of a first program and one or more second programs;
• providing the collected system configuration information to a remote service for determining one or more critical levels of system resource utilization based on fuzzy logic rules;
• when the monitored system resource utilization exceeds the determined one or more critical levels for a predetermined period of time, providing the collected software configuration information to the remote service for determining whether the first program conflicts with execution of one or more second programs and whether the one or more second programs are harmful to the computer system;
• and
• changing configuration settings of the first program to resolve conflicts with the one or more conflicting second programs that are harmless to the computer system.