%0 Report %9 Working Paper %A Bruni, Roberto %A Corradini, Andrea %A Gadducci, Fabio %A Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto %A Vandin, Andrea %D 2011 %F eprints:1011 %I IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca %K Adaptivity, autonomic systems, control data, MAPE-K control loop %T A conceptual framework for adaptation %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1011/ %X 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.