Towards a Quantitative Notion of Self-organisation

Organic computing (OC) and other research initiatives like autonomic computing or proactive computing have developed the idea of systems that possess life-like properties, that self-organise, that adapt to their dynamically changing environments, and that establish other so-called self-x properties,...

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Main Authors: Cakar, E., Mnif, M., Muller-Schloer, C., Richter, U., Schmeck, H.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Birds
Control systems
Entropy
Hazards
Humans
Marine animals
Process design
Research initiatives
Sampling methods
Systems engineering and theory
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Summary:Organic computing (OC) and other research initiatives like autonomic computing or proactive computing have developed the idea of systems that possess life-like properties, that self-organise, that adapt to their dynamically changing environments, and that establish other so-called self-x properties, like self-healing, self-configuration, self-optimisation etc. What we are searching for in OC are not concepts for systems that simply self-organise, but systems that self-organise to achieve a well defined system goal. Therefore we talk in OC about controlled self-organisation . Although the term self-organisation has been discussed for years, we miss a clear definition of self-organisation in most publications, which have a technically motivated background. In this paper, we summarise the state of the art and introduce a definition of self-organisation that addresses the problem of designing self-organising technical systems, which is the main objective of the OC initiative.
ISSN:1089-778X
1941-0026
DOI:10.1109/CEC.2007.4425022