%B Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering %O 15th International Conference, FASE 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 - April 1, 2012. Proceedings %X In this position paper we present a conceptual vision of adaptation, 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. %I Springer %K Adaptivity, autonomic systems, control data, MAPE-K control loop %P 240-254 %T A Conceptual Framework for Adaptation %L eprints1581 %N 7212 %A Roberto Bruni %A Andrea Corradini %A Fabio Gadducci %A Alberto Lluch-Lafuente %A Andrea Vandin %D 2012 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-28872-2_17 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science