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Organic computing: on the feasibility of controlled emergence
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A Characterization of Key Properties of Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems
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SimSOA: an approach for agent-based simulation and design-time assessment of SOC-based IT systems
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Evaluating the evolvability of emergent agents with different numbers of states
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Functional knowledge exchange within an intelligent distributed system
ARCS'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Architecture of computing systems
Measurement and control of self-organised behaviour in robot swarms
ARCS'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Architecture of computing systems
Adaptivity and self-organization in organic computing systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
ARCS'11 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Architecture of computing systems
Revising the trade-off between the number of agents and agent intelligence
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Philosophy of mind has investigated the emergent behavior of complex systems for more than a century. However, terms such as “weak” or “strong” emergence are hardly applicable to intelligent technical systems. Organic Computing has the goal to utilize concepts such as emergence and self-organization to build complex technical systems. At first glance this seems to be a contradiction, but: These systems must be reliable and trustworthy! In order to measure, to control, and even to design emergence, a new notion or definition of emergence is needed. This article first describes the definition of emergence as used in philosophy of mind because this definition is often misunderstood or misinterpreted. Then, some very recent approaches for definitions of emergence in more or less technical contexts are discussed from the viewpoint of Organic Computing. The article concludes with some new thoughts that may help to come to a unifying notion of emergence in intelligent technical systems.