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Engineering Self-Organising Systems

Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Giovanna Marzo Serugendo

    1. School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College London,  

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  2. Anthony Karageorgos

    1. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

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  3. Omer F. Rana

    1. School of Computer Science/Welsh eScience Centre, Cardiff University, UK

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  4. Franco Zambonelli

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2977)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Applications

    1. Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications

      • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Noria Foukia, Salima Hassas, Anthony Karageorgos, Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Omer F. Rana et al.
      Pages 1-19

    2. Self-Organizing MANET Management

      • Sven A. Brueckner, H. Van Dyke Parunak
      Pages 20-35

    3. Toward the Application of Self Organizing Systems to Agent Infrastructures – A Critical Review and Prospects

      • Simon Thompson
      Pages 36-52

  3. Natural Metaphors

    1. Multi-cells and Genetic Algorithms

      1. A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization
        • Radhika Nagpal
        Pages 53-62
      2. Nature-Inspired Self-Organisation in Wireless Communications Networks
        • Richard Tateson, Susan Howard, Ray Bradbeer
        Pages 63-74
      3. Designing Self-Assembly for 2-Dimensional Building Blocks
        • Ying Guo, Geoff Poulton, Phil Valencia, Geoff James
        Pages 75-89

    2. Stigmergy

      1. Strategies for the Increased Robustness of Ant-Based Clustering
        • Julia Handl, Joshua Knowles, Marco Dorigo
        Pages 90-104
      2. Self-Organising in Multi-agent Coordination and Control Using Stigmergy
        • Karuna Hadeli, Paul Valckenaers, Constantin Zamfirescu, Hendrik Van Brussel, Bart Saint Germain, Tom Hoelvoet et al.
        Pages 105-123
      3. Managing Computer Networks Security through Self-Organization: A Complex System Perspective
        • Noria Foukia, Salima Hassas
        Pages 124-138

    3. Atoms and Evolution

      1. A Holonic Self-Organization Approach to the Design of Emergent e-Logistics Infrastructures
        • Mihaela Ulieru, Rainer Unland
        Pages 139-156
      2. An Evolutionary Approach for Studying Heterogeneous Strategies in Electronic Markets
        • Alexander Babanov, Wolfgang Ketter, Maria Gini
        Pages 157-168

  4. Artificial Interaction Mechanisms

    1. Self-Organizing Agents for Mechanical Design

      • Davy Capera, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize
      Pages 169-185

    2. Can Tags Build Working Systems? From MABS to ESOA

      • David Hales, Bruce Edmonds
      Pages 186-194

    3. Self-Organizing Referral Networks: A Process View of Trust and Authority

      • Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 195-211

  5. Middleware

    1. Adaptiveness in Linda-Based Coordination Models

      • Ronaldo Menezes, Robert Tolksdorf
      Pages 212-232

    2. Self-Organization in Multi Agent Systems: A Middleware Approach

      • Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 233-248

  6. Methods and Tools

    1. Providing Effective Access to Shared Resources: A COIN Approach

      • Stéphane Airiau, Sandip Sen, David H. Wolpert, Kagan Tumer
      Pages 249-264

    2. A Modular Paradigm for Building Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Applications

      • Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Ozalp Babaoglu
      Pages 265-282

    3. Tools for Self-Organizing Applications Engineering

      • Carole Bernon, Valérie Camps, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Gauthier Picard
      Pages 283-298
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As information handling systems get more and more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage them using traditional approaches based on centralized and pre-defined control mechanisms. Over recent years, there has been a significant increase in taking inspiration from biology, the physical world, chemistry, and social systems to more efficiently manage such systems - generally based on the concept of self-organisation; this gave rise to self-organising applications.

This book constitutes a reference and starting point for establishing the field of engineering self-organising applications. It comprises revised and extended papers presented at the Engineering Self-Organising Applications Workshop, ESOA 2003, held at AAMAS 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2003 and selected invited papers from leading researchers in self-organisation. The book is organized in parts on applications, natural metaphors (multi-cells and genetic algorithms, stigmergy, and atoms and evolution), artificial interaction mechanisms, middleware, and methods and tools.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College London,  

    Giovanna Marzo Serugendo

  • Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

    Anthony Karageorgos

  • School of Computer Science/Welsh eScience Centre, Cardiff University, UK

    Omer F. Rana

  • Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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