Overview
- 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)
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Introduction
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Distributed Management and Control
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Self-Organizing Computation
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Discussion
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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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems
Editors: Mikhail Prokopenko
Series Title: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-982-8Published: 24 November 2007
Series ISSN: 1610-3947
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8441
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 376
Number of Illustrations: 144 b/w illustrations
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Systems Theory, Control, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Pattern Recognition, Simulation and Modeling, Theory of Computation