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Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing

IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8-9, 2008, Milano, Italy

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  • The contributors in this volume are world-renowned experts in their field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Keynote Presentations

    1. Immuno-engineering

      • Jon Timmis, Emma Hart, Andy Hone, Mark Neal, Adrian Robins, Susan Stepney et al.
      Pages 3-17
  3. Inspiration Based on Insect Behaviors

    1. Congestion Control in Ant Like Moving Agent Systems

      • Alexander Scheidler, Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf
      Pages 33-43
    2. Resource-Aware Clustering of Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Division of Labor in Social Insects

      • Tales Heimfarth, Dalimir Orfanus, Flávio Rech Wagner
      Pages 45-58
  4. Sensors, Actuators and Networks

    1. Self-stabilizing Automata

      • Torben Weis, Arno Wacker
      Pages 59-69
  5. Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems

    1. Evolving Collision Avoidance on Autonomous Robots

      • Lukas König, Hartmut Schmeck
      Pages 85-94
    2. Local Strategies for Connecting Stations by Small Robotic Networks

      • Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Barbara Schneider
      Pages 95-104
    3. Measurement of Robot Similarity to Determine the Best Demonstrator for Imitation in a Group of Heterogeneous Robots

      • Raphael Golombek, Willi Richert, Bernd Kleinjohann, Philipp Adelt
      Pages 105-114
  6. Immunocomputing and Biological-Inspiration

    1. Intrusion Detection via Artificial Immune System: a Performance-based Approach

      • Andrea Visconti, Nicoló Fusi, Hooman Tahayori
      Pages 125-135
    2. Immuno-repairing of FPGA designs

      • Norma Montealegre, Franz J. Rammig
      Pages 137-149
    3. An Organic Computing Approach to Sustained Real-time Monitoring

      • Rainer Buchty, David Kramer, Wolfgang Karl
      Pages 151-162
  7. Applications

    1. A Case Study in Model-driven Synthetic Biology

      • David Gilbert, Monika Heiner, Susan Rosser, Rachael Fulton, Xu Gu, Maciej Trybilo
      Pages 163-175
    2. Integrating Emotional Competence into Man-Machine Collaboration

      • Natascha Esau, Lisa Kleinjohann, Bernd Kleinjohann
      Pages 187-198
  8. Hardware Issues

    1. Self-optimized Routing in a Network on-a-Chip

      • Wolfgang Trumler, Sebastian Schlingmann, Theo Ungerer, Jun Ho Bahn, Nader Bagherzadeh
      Pages 199-212
    2. On Robust Evolution of Digital Hardware

      • Tobias Knieper, Bertrand Defo, Paul Kaufmann, Marco Platzner
      Pages 213-222

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About this book

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” advised Albert Einstein. In recent years, the research communities in Computer Science, Engineering, and other disciplines have taken this message to heart, and a relatively new field of “biologically-inspired computing” has been born. Inspiration is being drawn from nature, from the behaviors of colonies of ants, of swarms of bees and even the human body. This new paradigm in computing takes many simple autonomous objects or agents and lets them jointly perform a complex task, without having the need for centralized control. In this paradigm, these simple objects interact locally with their environment using simple rules. Applications include optimization algorithms, communications networks, scheduling and decision making, supply-chain management, and robotics, to name just a few. There are many disciplines involved in making such systems work: from artificial intelligence to energy aware systems. Often these disciplines have their own field of focus, have their own conferences, or only deal with specialized s- problems (e.g. swarm intelligence, biologically inspired computation, sensor networks). The Second IFIP Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing aims to bridge this separation of the scientific community and bring together researchers in the fields of Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing and related areas. We are very pleased to have two very important keynote presentations: Swarm Robotics: The Coordination of Robots via Swarm Intelligence Principles by Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), of which an abstract is included in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Center, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Mike Hinchey

  • Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Anastasia Pagnoni

  • Universität Paderborn, Germany

    Franz J. Rammig

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Hartmut Schmeck

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