Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm in Information Technologies. Each provisioned resource comes with functional properties and may not offer non functional properties like monitoring, reconfiguration, security, accountability. In such dynamic environment, non functional properties have a critical importance to maintain the service level of resources and to make them respect the contracts between providers and consumers. In our work, we are interested in monitoring, reconfiguration and autonomic management of Cloud resources. Emphasis has been laid on Service-based applications following...