Sven Brueckner

Engineering Self-organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Sven Brueckner

Marc Notes: The book comprises revised versions of papers presented at the Engineering Self-organising Applications (ESOA 2004) workshop, held during the Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems conference (AAMAS 2004) in New York in July 2004, and selected invited papers from leading contributors in the self-organisation field--Pref., p. vi.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: State of the Art.- Emergence Versus Self-Organisation: Different Concepts but Promising When Combined.- About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering.- Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the e-Society.- Synthesis and Design Methods.- Agent-Based Modelling of Stem Cell Self-organisation in a Niche.- Ambient Cognitive Environments and the Distributed Synthesis of Visual Ambiences.- Using the Experimental Method to Produce Reliable Self-Organised Systems.- An Architecture for Self-Organising Evolvable Virtual Machines.- Self-Organising, Open and Cooperative P2P Societies From Tags to Networks.- Self- ssembly and Robots.- Self-Organizing Spatial Shapes in Mobile Particles: The TOTA Approach.- Directed Self-assembly of 2-Dimensional Mesoblocks Using Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design.- Analysis of a Stochastic Model of Adaptive Task Allocation in Robots.- Emergent Team Formation: Applying Division of Labour Principles to Robot Soccer.- Stigmergy and Related Topics.- Analyzing Stigmergic Learning for Self-Organizing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET s).- Emergent Forecasting Using a Stigmergy Approach in Manufacturing Coordination and Control.- IDReAM: Intrusion Detection and Response Executed with Agent Mobility.- Managing Dynamic Flows in Production Chains Through Self-Organization.- Industrial Applications.- A Self-Organizing and Fault-Tolerant Wired Peer-to-Peer Sensor Network for Textile Applications.- Applying Distributed Adaptive Optimization to Digital Car Body Development.- Adaptive Service Placement Algorithms for Autonomous Service Networks."