Self-Organizing Networked Systems for Technical Applications: A Discussion on Open Issues

  • Authors:
  • Wilfried Elmenreich;Hermann Meer

  • Affiliations:
  • Lakeside Labs, Mobile Systems Group Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria;Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics Chair of Computer Networks and Communications, University of Passau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IWSOS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The concept of self-organization has been examined oftentimes for several domains such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. However, the current technical development opens a new field of self-organizing applications by creating systems of networked and massively distributed hardware with self-organized control. Having this view in mind, this papers reviews the questions: What is a self-organizing system?, What is it not?, Should there be a separate field of science for self-organizing systems? , and What are possible approaches to engineer a self-organizing control system? . The presented ideas have been elaborated at the Lakeside Research Days'08 (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), a workshop that featured guided discussions between invited experts working in the field of self-organizing systems.