Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications

Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna; Foukia, Noria; Hassas, Salima; Karageorgos, Anthony; Mostéfaoui, Soraya Kouadri; Rana, Omer F.; Ulieru, Mihaela; Valckenaers, Paul; Van Aart, Chris

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Title		Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications
Authors		Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna Foukia, Noria Hassas, Salima Karageorgos, Anthony Mostéfaoui, Soraya Kouadri Rana, Omer F. Ulieru, Mihaela Valckenaers, Paul Van Aart, Chris show all authors [1 - 9]
Published in		Di Marzo Serugendo, G. & Karageorgos, A. & Rana, O.-F. & Zambonelli, F. Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering. Berlin: Springer. 2004, p. 1-19
Collection		Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2977
Abstract		A self-organising system functions without central control, and through contextual local interactions. Components achieve a simple task individually, but a complex collective behaviour emerges from their mutual interactions. Such a system modifies its structure and functionality to adapt to changes to requirements and to the environment based on previous experience. Nature provides examples of self-organisation, such as ants food foraging, molecules formation, or antibodies detection. Similarly, current software applications are driven by social interactions (negotiations, transactions), based on autonomous entities or agents, and run in highly dynamic environments. The issue of engineering applications, based on the principles of self-organisation to achieve robustness and adaptability, is gaining increasing interest in the software research community. The aim of this paper is to survey natural and artificial complex systems exhibiting emergent behaviour, and to outline the mechanisms enabling such behaviours.
Keywords		Self-organisation — Self-organising application — Emergence — Collective behaviour — Multi-agent systems
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_1 ISBN: 978-3-540-21201-0
Full text		Book chapter (Author postprint) (190 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE Other version: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b95863
Structures		Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Information Service Science
Research group		Institute of Information Service Science (ISS)
Citation (ISO format)		DI MARZO SERUGENDO, Giovanna et al. Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G. & Karageorgos, A. & Rana, O.-F. & Zambonelli, F. (Ed.). Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering. Berlin : Springer, 2004. p. 1-19. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2977) https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:48320