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This book is the collective effort of many people working on the topic of self-organising systems since many years. It provides an introduction to the topic and reviews history and definitions, self-organising mechanisms, engineering techniques and applications. This chapter reviews the interest for this subject, highlights the main points to remember and briefly discusses some open research questions.

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Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Gleizes, MP., Karageorgos, A. (2011). Conclusions. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Gleizes, MP., Karageorgos, A. (eds) Self-organising Software. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17348-6_18

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