Enabling Autonomic Properties in Road Transport System

Current autonomic computing systems tend to rely
on reactive rather than deliberative reasoning, that is, they use a simpler form of reasoning over sets of de�fined rules in order to be able to work in real-time. However, technology in areas such as automated planning or constraints processing have been developing rapidly, so that now it may be possible to deploy deliberative reasoning to real-time applications. In this paper, we introduce the problem of self-management of a road traffi�c network as a temporal planning problem. We design a road traffic model, and use it with domain independent planners to consider the feasibility of introducing it into tra�ffic management applications.