Complexity Digest 2011.20 - 19.03

2011/10/14

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

Self-organising Software: From Natural to Artificial Adaptation, Springer Bookmark and Share

Summary:
Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organising applications dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention, responding to changes in requirements and the environment. The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organisation concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organising behaviour can be modelled, analysed and systematically engineered into agent behaviour; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organising multiagent systems.