Self-aware and self-healing computing system

Abstract

A method and a computing system for performing the method. At least two microstates of at least two components of a computing system are organized into at least two macrostates of the computing system. Each microstate represents a state that a component of the computing system is able to individually enter. Each macrostate represents a state that the computing system is able to enter as a whole. The macrostates are organized into attractors. Each attractor is a stable state in which the computing system is stable. The macrostates are included within a plurality of meta-dynamic states of the computing system subject to each meta-dynamic state being a set of macrostates of the macrostates of the computing system. A path to cause the computing system to move back to a desirable meta-dynamic state is determined. The computing system is caused to move on the path to the desirable meta-dynamic state.