Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems (eBook)

Mikhail Prokopenko (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2008
XII, 376 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-982-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents the state-of-the-art in successfully engineered self-organizing systems. It goes further, too, to examine ways to balance design and self-organization in the context of applications. As demonstrated throughout, finding this balance helps to deal with diverse practical challenges. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic and provide guidance on its more intricate areas.

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Self-organization is a multi-faceted phenomenon, present in many fields, operating at multiple scales, and performs diverse roles. This book focuses on the state of the practice of self-organizing systems. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic, and also provide guidance to the intricate areas.The book begins with more established fields of traffic management, electricity trading markets, and structural health monitoring, building up towards robotic teams, solving challenging tasks and deployed in tough environments. The second half of the book follows with a deeper look into the micro-level, and considers interactions between agents. These interactions lead towards self-organizing diagnostics and visualization, reaction-diffusion computation, self-assembly of nano-structures, and eventually to artificial life.Demonstrating the practical relevance and applicability of self-organization, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in a wide range of fields.

Inhalt

Design vs. Self-organization.- Foundations and Formalizations of Self-organization.- Distributed Management and Control.- Self-Organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation.- A Self-organizing Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Vehicles.- Decentralized Decision Making for Multiagent Systems.- Learning Mutation Strategies for Evolution and Adaptation of a Simulated Snakebot.- Self-Organization as Phase Transition in Decentralized Groups of Robots: A Study Based on Boltzmann Entropy.- Distributed Control of Microscopic Robots in Biomedical Applications.- Self-Organizing Computation.- Self-Organizing Digital Systems.- Self-organizing Nomadic Services in Grids.- Immune System Support for Scheduling.- Formal Immune Networks: Self-Organization and Real-World Applications.- A Model for Self-Organizing Data Visualization Using Decentralized Multiagent Systems.- Emergence of Traveling Localizations in Mutualistic-Excitation Media.- Discussion.- A Turing Test for Emergence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
• Reihe/Serie: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 376 p. 144 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • algorithms • Artificial Life • Automat • Automata • bio-inspired computing • Bio-inspired Robotics • collective behaviour • Complex Systems • Computer • Decentralized Management • Distrbuted Management • Distributed Computing • Emergence • Evolutinary Algorithms • immune networks • Information Transfer • learning • Monitor • multi-agent system • Multi-agent Systems • organization • pattern formation • robot • Scheduling • Self-Assembly • Self-Organization • Self-organizing Computation • sensing • Simulation • verification • Visualization
• ISBN-10: 1-84628-982-3 / 1846289823
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-982-8 / 9781846289828