Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by Tom De Wolf, Tom Holvoet (auth.), Sven A. Brueckner, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, Radhika Nagpal (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3464 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment.

This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Emergence Versus Self-Organisation: Different Concepts but Promising When Combined....Pages 1-15
About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering....Pages 16-31
Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the e-Society....Pages 32-51
Agent-Based Modelling of Stem Cell Self-organisation in a Niche....Pages 52-68
Ambient Cognitive Environments and the Distributed Synthesis of Visual Ambiences....Pages 69-83
Using the Experimental Method to Produce Reliable Self-Organised Systems....Pages 84-99
An Architecture for Self-Organising Evolvable Virtual Machines....Pages 100-122
Self-Organising, Open and Cooperative P2P Societies – From Tags to Networks....Pages 123-137
Self-Organizing Spatial Shapes in Mobile Particles: The TOTA Approach....Pages 138-153
Directed Self-assembly of 2-Dimensional Mesoblocks Using Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design....Pages 154-166
Analysis of a Stochastic Model of Adaptive Task Allocation in Robots....Pages 167-179
Emergent Team Formation: Applying Division of Labour Principles to Robot Soccer....Pages 180-194
Analyzing Stigmergic Learning for Self-Organizing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET’s)....Pages 195-209
Emergent Forecasting Using a Stigmergy Approach in Manufacturing Coordination and Control....Pages 210-226
IDReAM: Intrusion Detection and Response Executed with Agent Mobility....Pages 227-239
Managing Dynamic Flows in Production Chains Through Self-Organization....Pages 240-255
A Self-Organizing and Fault-Tolerant Wired Peer-to-Peer Sensor Network for Textile Applications....Pages 256-266
Applying Distributed Adaptive Optimization to Digital Car Body Development....Pages 267-279
Adaptive Service Placement Algorithms for Autonomous Service Networks....Pages 280-297
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Operating Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computers and Society