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Computer networks. --- Software engineering. --- Computer science. --- Algorithms. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Application software. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Theory of Computation. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer and Information Systems Applications. --- Information resources management. --- Management information systems.

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Information systems can be complex due to numerous factors including scale, decentralization, heterogeneity, mobility, dynamism, bugs and failures. Depl- ing, operating and maintaining such systems can be not only very di?cult, but also very costly. A ?urry of recent activity has been directed at this pr- lem, and future information systems are envisioned as self-con?guring, se- organizing,self-managingandself-repairing.Collectively,wecalltheseproperties self- properties. This book is a spin-o?  of a by-invitation-only Bertinoro workshop on se- propertiesincomplexsystemswhichwasheldinsummer2004inBertinoro,Italy. The Self-star workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from d- ferent disciplines and with di?erent backgrounds to discuss complex information systems.Thethemeoftheworkshopwastoidentifytheconceptualandpractical foundationsformodeling,analyzingandachievingself- propertiesindistributed and networked systems. Partly based on these discussions, we solicited papers from the workshop participants and a set of invitees for this book. We sought original contributions in which authors explicitly take a position concerningrequirements,usefulness,potentialandlimitations oftechnologies for self- properties of complex systems. This position needed to be founded on - search results that were put clearly in context with respect to the position sta- ment. We strongly encouraged visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas, and exploratory results that will help the reader form her or his own opinions on the importance of self- properties in current and future complex information systems.

Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Computers. --- Algorithms. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Application software. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Computation by Abstract Devices. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).