Self-Organizing Software

by Serugendo, Giovanna Di Marzo; Gleizes, Marie-Pierre; Karageorgos, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9783642173479
• ISBN10: 3642173470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Self-organization, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organizing 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-organization technologies applied to distributed systems, focusing in particular on multiagent systems.  The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organization concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organizing behavior can be modeled, analyzed and systematically engineered into agent behavior; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organizing multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesizing up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organization, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, tags, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organizing software, in particular it examines methodologies, middleware infrastructures, analysis and simulation. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organizing software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, robot coordination, 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-organization, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organizing 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-organization technologies applied to distributed systems, focusing in particular on multiagent systems.  The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organization concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organizing behavior can be modeled, analyzed and systematically engineered into agent behavior; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organizing multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesizing up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organization, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, tags, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organizing software, in particular it examines methodologies, middleware infrastructures, analysis and simulation. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organizing software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, robot coordination, 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-organization, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-or