  Licas (lightweight internet-based communication for autonomic services) is a
distributed framework for building service-based systems. The framework
provides a p2p server and more intelligent processing of information through
its AI algorithms. Distributed communication includes XML-RPC, REST, HTTP and
Web Services. It can now provide a robust platform for building different types
of system, where Microservices or SOA would be possible. However, the system
may be equally suited for the IoT, as it provides classes to connect with
external sources and has an optional Autonomic Manager with a MAPE control loop
integrated into the communication process. The system is also mobile-compatible
with Android. This paper focuses in particular on the autonomic setup and how
that might be used. A novel linking mechanism has been described previously and
is considered again, as part of the autonomous framework.
