%0 Conference Paper %A Elhadi, M. %A Abdullah, A. %D 2008 %F scholars:330 %K Architecture; Biological systems; Computer software; Information technology; Set theory; System stability, Abnormal conditions; Biologically inspired; Formal descriptions; High stabilities; Self-healing; Software systems, Software architecture %R 10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4631889 %T Layered biologically inspired self-healing software system architecture %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/330/ %V 3 %X This paper presents biologically inspired selfhealing software architecture and provides a formal description of the architecture using graph and set theory. This work aims to develop a method on how to engineer software systems which have similar high stability and efficiency often found in biological systems (in terms of handling abnormal conditions of such systems). After analyzing one of the biological self-healing systems (the wound healing), we mapped its processes into software system architecture. The architecture can handle single-fault of the system's components as well as concurrent-faults. © 2008 IEEE. %Z cited By 0; Conference of International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSim ; Conference Date: 26 August 2008 Through 29 August 2008; Conference Code:74115