  The raise of complexity of technical systems also raises knowledge required
to set them up and to maintain them. The cost to evolve such systems can be
prohibitive. In the field of Autonomic Computing, technical systems should
therefore have various self-healing capabilities allowing system owners to
provide only partial, potentially inconsistent updates of the system. The
self-healing or self-integrating system shall find out the remaining changes to
communications and functionalities in order to accommodate change and yet still
restore function. This issue becomes even more interesting in context of
Internet of Things and Industrial Internet where previously unexpected device
combinations can be assembled in order to provide a surprising new function. In
order to pursue higher levels of self-integration capabilities I propose to
think of self-integration as sophisticated error correcting communications.
Therefore, this paper discusses an extended scope of error correction with the
purpose to emphasize error correction's role as an integrated element of
bi-directional communication channels in self-integrating, autonomic
communication scenarios.
