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Consequently, regulation of the whole software system becomes an emergent property of local adaptation and learning carried out by these autonomous system elements. Designing appropriate local adaptation policies for the components of such systems remains a major challenge. This is particularly true where the system\u2019s scale and dynamism compromise the efficiency of a central executive and\/or prevent components from pooling information to achieve a shared, accurate evidence base for their negotiations and decisions. In this paper, we investigate how a self-regulatory system response may arise spontaneously from local interactions between autonomic system elements tasked with adaptively consuming\/providing computational resources or services when the demand for such resources is continually changing. We demonstrate that system performance is not maximized when all system components are able to freely share information with one another. Rather, maximum efficiency is achieved when individual components have only limited knowledge of their peers. Under these conditions, the system self-organizes into appropriate community structures. 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