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Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment. This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.

Artificial intelligence. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Computers and civilization. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computers and Society. --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Self-organizing systems --- Evolutionary computation

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The idea that self-organisation and emergence can be harnessed for the purpose of solving tricky engineering problems is becoming increasingly accepted. - searchers working in many diverse ?elds (such as networks, distributed systems, operating systems and agent systems) are beginning to apply this new approach. This book contains recent work from a broad range of areas with the common theme of utilising self-organisation productively. As distributed information infrastructures continue to spread (such as the Internet, wireless and mobile systems), new challenges have arisen demanding robust and scalable solutions. In these new challenging environments the - signers and engineers of global applications and services can seldom rely on centralised control or management, high reliability of devices, or secure en- ronments. At the other end of the scale, ad-hoc sensor networks and ubiquitous computing devices are making it possible to embed millions of smart computing agents into the local environment. Here too systems need to adapt to constant failures and replacement of agents and changes in the environment, without human intervention or centralised management.

Self-organizing systems --- Evolutionary programming (Computer science) --- Evolutionary computation --- Systèmes auto-organisés --- Programmation évolutive --- Réseaux neuronaux à structure évolutive --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computers and civilization. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computers and Society. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer operating systems --- Computers --- Disk operating systems --- Systems software --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Network computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Operating systems --- Distributed processing --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems, EEMMAS 2007, held in Dresden, Germany, in October 2007, in conjunction with ECCS 2007, the European Conference on Complex Systems The volume includes 16 thoroughly revised papers, selected from the lectures given at the workshop, together with 2 papers resulting from invited talks by prominent researchers in the field. The papers are organized in sections on engineering self-organizing applications, stigmergic interaction, modeling and structuring mediating environments, and environment-based support for context and organizations.

Intelligent agents (Computer software) --- Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Informatics --- Science --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Software Engineering. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer communication systems. --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Network computers --- Distributed processing

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The Fourth International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organizing Appli- tions (ESOA) was held on May 9, 2006 in conjunction with the 2006 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2006),in Hakodate, Japan. The present post-proceedings volume contains revised versions of the seven papers presented at the workshop, and six additional invited papers. C- tinuing the tradition of previous editions, this book discusses a broad variety of topics in an e?ort to allow room for new ideas and discussion, and eventually a better understanding of the important directions and techniques of our ?eld. In Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents  an article based on an invited talk at the workshop by Van Parunak Parunak et al. address an important question facing the ESOA community: how should self-organizingswarm-likeagentapproachesrelatetothetechniquesofthemul- agent community at large? ESOA techniques primarily rely on simple reactive agents, whose intelligence emerges at the group level via carefully designed - teraction rules. These simple agents might have some internal state that allows them to remember the history of their interactions at some (low) level of detail, but generally the complexity in such systems arises from the dynamics. In c- trast, the mainstream multi-agent systems community uses intelligent agents, which apply sophisticated algorithms to build up internal models of their - vironments and complex protocols to communicate about their models. This general approach,of which the BDI frameworksare an example, warranta more cognitive analogythan the typical ESOAideas. Parunaket al. 's workshowshow the two approaches could pro?tably interact.

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The idea that self-organisation and emergence can be harnessed for the purpose of solving tricky engineering problems is becoming increasingly accepted. - searchers working in many diverse ?elds (such as networks, distributed systems, operating systems and agent systems) are beginning to apply this new approach. This book contains recent work from a broad range of areas with the common theme of utilising self-organisation productively. As distributed information infrastructures continue to spread (such as the Internet, wireless and mobile systems), new challenges have arisen demanding robust and scalable solutions. In these new challenging environments the - signers and engineers of global applications and services can seldom rely on centralised control or management, high reliability of devices, or secure en- ronments. At the other end of the scale, ad-hoc sensor networks and ubiquitous computing devices are making it possible to embed millions of smart computing agents into the local environment. Here too systems need to adapt to constant failures and replacement of agents and changes in the environment, without human intervention or centralised management.

Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- IR (information retrieval) --- informatica --- maatschappij --- software engineering --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- OS (operating system) --- computernetwerken --- robots