relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2936/ title: A Life Cycle for the Development of Autonomic Systems: The E-mobility Showcase creator: Bureš, Tomáš creator: De Nicola, Rocco creator: Gerostathopoulos, Ilias creator: Hoch, Nicklas creator: Kit, Michal creator: Koch, Nora creator: Monreale, Giacoma Valentina creator: Montanari, Ugo creator: Pugliese, Rosario creator: Serbedzija, Nikola creator: Wirsing, Martin creator: Zambonelli, Franco subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science subject: T Technology (General) description: Component ensembles are a promising way of building self-aware autonomic adaptive systems. This approach has been promoted by the EU project ASCENS, which develops the core idea of ensembles by providing rigorous semantics as well as models and methods for the whole development life cycle of an ensemble-based system. These methods specifically address adaptation, self-awareness, self-optimization, and continuous system evolution. In this paper, we demonstrate the key concepts and benefits of the ASCENS approach in the context of intelligent navigation of electric vehicles (e-Mobility), which itself is one of the three key case studies of the project. publisher: IEEE date: 2014-09 type: Conference or Workshop Item type: PeerReviewed identifier: Bureš, Tomáš and De Nicola, Rocco and Gerostathopoulos, Ilias and Hoch, Nicklas and Kit, Michal and Koch, Nora and Monreale, Giacoma Valentina and Montanari, Ugo and Pugliese, Rosario and Serbedzija, Nikola and Wirsing, Martin and Zambonelli, Franco A Life Cycle for the Development of Autonomic Systems: The E-mobility Showcase. In: 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 9-13 September, 2013, Philadelphia, PA pp. 71-76. (2014) relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6803261&tag=1 relation: 10.1109/SASOW.2013.23