The Road towards Self-Management in Communication Networks

When reading the term “self-management”, which picture do you associate with it? Think about it for a minute - before reading on! What did you see? Was it an illustration of the human body with the autonomous nervous system? Did you envision your heart and the fact that you only indirectly control it? Alternatively, did you imagine modern technology, for example an airplane with the “fly by wire” concept? Did you think of something else?