@unpublished{eprints1011, year = {2011}, title = {A conceptual framework for adaptation}, institution = {IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca}, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Roberto Bruni and Andrea Corradini and Fabio Gadducci and Alberto Lluch-Lafuente and Andrea Vandin}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1011/}, keywords = {Adaptivity, autonomic systems, control data, MAPE-K control loop}, abstract = {In this position paper we present a conceptual vision of adap- tation, a key feature of autonomic systems. We put some stress on the role of control data and argue how some of the programming paradigms and models used for adaptive systems match with our conceptual framework.} }