Engineering Self-Organising Systems

Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment.
This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005.

The 12 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on novel self-organising mechanisms, methodologies, models and tools for self-organising applications, and specific applications of self-organising mechanisms.