Organic computing: on the feasibility of controlled emergence

  • Authors:
  • C. Müller-Schloer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Hannover, Hannover

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper gives an introduction to the new research area of Organic Computing and shows chances, opportunities and problems currently tackled by researchers. First the visions that lead to this new research area are discussed briefly. It is shown that the notion of emergence, a central phenomenon in Organic Compting, is a typical bottom-up effect with the interesting property of generating order from randomness. The classical design, however, is a top-down process. This apparent contradiction can be overcome by introducing so-called Observer/Controller architectures leading to the possibility to controlled emergence. The paper concludes with a description of current research problems in Organic Computing.