Overview
- This is the first book to provide a comprehensive view of self-organised software
- Will be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises
- Is supported by an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Natural Computing Series (NCS)
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About this book
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. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems.
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. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking.
The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines.
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. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems.
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. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking.
The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines.
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Keywords
- Adaptive systems
- Ant colony optimization (ACO)
- Artificial intelligence
- Cellular automata
- Collective intelligence
- Complex systems
- Constraint satisfaction problems (CSP)
- Distributed autonomous systems
- Dynamic distributed systems
- Emergent phenomena
- Games
- Holarchy
- Immune systems
- Intelligent agents
- Mobile agents
- Mobile agents
- Multiagent systems
- Self-organization
- Stigmergy
- Swarm intelligence
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Main Concepts and Background
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Front Matter
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Self-organisation Mechanisms
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Front Matter
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Self-Organisation Mechanisms
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Engineering Artificial Self-organising Systems
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Front Matter
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Engineering Artificial Self-Organising Systems
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Applications of Self-organising Software
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Front Matter
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Applications of Self-Organising Software
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
The first editor is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems, while the first and third editors have coedited related books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-organising Software
Book Subtitle: From Natural to Artificial Adaptation
Editors: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos
Series Title: Natural Computing Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17348-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-17347-9Published: 15 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27052-9Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-17348-6Published: 15 September 2011
Series ISSN: 1619-7127
Series E-ISSN: 2627-6461
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 462