An autonomic network must work unsupervised, therefore must be able to respond to
unpredictable situations. The BIONETS project is working towards resilient network services
that are able not only to perform short-term adaptations to the environment but also long-
term evolution of new functionalities. To this end, a bio-inspired approach is proposed,
based on an extension of evolutionary computing to a pervasive environment where
disconnected operation is common, and where the fitness of a service is evaluated at …