Self-organization And Autonomic Informatics 1

by Czap, H.; Unland, R.; Branki, C.

• ISBN13: 9781586035778
• ISBN10: 1586035770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Ios Pr Inc

Summary

Self-organization and adaptation are concepts stemming from the nature and have been adopted in systems theory. They are considered to be the essential ingredients of any living organism and, as such, are studied intensively in biology, sociology, and organizational theory. They have also penetrated into control theory, cybernetics and the study of adaptive complex systems. Computing and communication systems are basically artificial systems. This prevents conventional self-organization and adaptation principles and approaches from being directly applicable to computing and communication systems. The methodology of multi-agent systems and the technology of Grid computing have shed lights for the exploration into the self-organization and adaptation of large-scale complex IT systems. This book provides in-depth thoughts about the above discussed challenges as well as a range of state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies for the entirely new area. We refer to this newly emerging area as Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics, which has represented the future generation of IT systems, comprised of communication infrastructures and computing applications, which are inherently large-scale, complex, and open.

Table of Contents

A logical treatment for the emergence of control in complex self-organising systems	p. 3
Towards a methodology for engineering self-organising emergent systems	p. 18
Moving nature-inspired algorithms to parallel, asynchronous and decentralised environments	p. 35
Opponent modeling in adversarial environments through learning ingenuity	p. 50
From bayesian decision-makers to bayesian agents	p. 62
An energy-driven social behaviour network architecture	p. 77
A variable resolution virtual sensor in social behaviour networks	p. 86
Developing self-organized architecture solution according to model driven generative domain engineering	p. 97
A realistic simulation testbed for studying game playing in robotic soccer	p. 105
Knowledge management to support situation-aware risk management in autonomous, self-managing agents	p. 114
Ontology-based multi-agent systems support human disease study and control	p. 129
Intelligent MAS for electronic customer relationship development	p. 142
Java-based mobile-agent systems in the real world : security highlights	p. 151
Agent based computational model of trust	p. 160
Autonomic pervasive grids : a session manager service for handling mobile users	p. 175
Avalanche dynamics in grids : indications of SOC or HOT?	p. 183
Combining virtual organization and local policies for automated configuration of grid services	p. 194
EXEHDA : adaptive middleware for building a pervasive grid environment	p. 203
A multi-agent approach for the construction of a peer-to-peer information system in grids	p. 220
Resource discovery in computational grids : state-of-the-art and current challenges	p. 237
Providing reliable distributed grid services in mobile environments	p. 246
Mobile agent implemented grid resource reservation	p. 256
Achieving self-healing in autonomic software systems : a case-based reasoning approach	p. 267
Why applying agent technology to autonomic computing?	p. 282
A programmatic approach to applying sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic systems to software design	p. 293
Collaboration patterns for adaptive software engineering processes	p. 304
Service agents based collaborative workflow management implementation	p. 313
An agent-based P2P system to distributed knowledge management	p. 322
Intelligent traffic control on Internet-like topologies	p. 329
MA-DIDS : a multi-agent based distributed intrusion detection system	p. 342
A new access network architecture for the next generation wireless networks	p. 349
Identity and trust management directions for user controlled light-path establishment	p. 356
Tag-based cooperation in peer-to-peer networks with Newscast	p. 365
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