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Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Mikhail Prokopenko

    1. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

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  • Focuses on the state of the practice of self-organizing systems
  • Considers several novel applications, extending the range of applicability of self-organizing systems
  • Practical case studies examine successful applications of self-organization, identify essential causes for the successes, and propose guiding principles for future developments
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Design vs. Self-organization

      • Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 3-17

    3. Foundations and Formalizations of Self-organization

      • Daniel Polani
      Pages 19-37

  3. Distributed Management and Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Self-Organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation

      • Seung-Bae Cools, Carlos Gershenson, Bart D’Hooghe
      Pages 41-50

    3. A Self-organizing Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Vehicles

      • N. Hoschke, C. J. Lewis, D. C. Price, D. A. Scott, V. Gerasimov, P. Wang
      Pages 51-76

    4. Decentralized Decision Making for Multiagent Systems

      • George Mathews, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 77-104

    5. Learning Mutation Strategies for Evolution and Adaptation of a Simulated Snakebot

      • Ivan Tanev
      Pages 105-126

    6. Self-Organization as Phase Transition in Decentralized Groups of Robots: A Study Based on Boltzmann Entropy

      • Gianluca Baldassarre
      Pages 127-146

    7. Distributed Control of Microscopic Robots in Biomedical Applications

      • Tad Hogg
      Pages 147-174

  4. Self-Organizing Computation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Self-Organizing Digital Systems

      • Nicholas J. Macias, Lisa J. K. Durbeck
      Pages 177-216

    3. Self-organizing Nomadic Services in Grids

      • Tino Schlegel, Ryszard Kowalczyk
      Pages 217-246

    4. Immune System Support for Scheduling

      • Young Choon Lee, Albert Y. Zomaya
      Pages 247-270

    5. Formal Immune Networks: Self-Organization and Real-World Applications

      • Alexander O. Tarakanov
      Pages 271-290

    6. A Model for Self-Organizing Data Visualization Using Decentralized Multiagent Systems

      • Andrew Vande Moere
      Pages 291-324

    7. Emergence of Traveling Localizations in Mutualistic-Excitation Media

      • Andrew Adamatzky
      Pages 325-346

  5. Discussion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347
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    2. A Turing Test for Emergence

      • Fabio Boschetti, Randall Gray
      Pages 349-364
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About this book

Self-organization is a multi-faceted phenomenon, present in many fields, operating at multiple scales, and performs diverse roles. This book focuses on the state of the practice of self-organizing systems. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic, and also provide guidance to the intricate areas.

The book begins with more established fields of traffic management, electricity trading markets, and structural health monitoring, building up towards robotic teams, solving challenging tasks and deployed in tough environments. The second half of the book follows with a deeper look into the micro-level, and considers interactions between agents. These interactions lead towards self-organizing diagnostics and visualization, reaction-diffusion computation, self-assembly of nano-structures, and eventually to artificial life.

Demonstrating the practical relevance and applicability of self-organization, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in a wide range of fields.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

    Mikhail Prokopenko

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