Engineering Self-Organising Systems

Chapter 1 T-Man: Gossip-Based Overlay Topology Management

Chapter 2 Basic Approach to Emergent Programming: Feasibility Study for Engineering Adaptive Systems Using Self-organizing Instruction-Agents

Chapter 3 ETTO: Emergent Timetabling by Cooperative Self-organization

Chapter 4 Self-adaptation and Dynamic Environment Experiments with Evolvable Virtual Machines

Chapter 5 Choose Your Tribe! – Evolution at the Next Level in a Peer-to-Peer Network

Chapter 6 Exchange Values and Self-regulation of Exchanges in Multi-agent Systems: The Provisory, Centralized Model

Chapter 7 A New Protocol to Share Critical Resources by Self-organized Coordination

Chapter 8 Information-Driven Phase Changes in Multi-agent Coordination

Chapter 9 Self-organising Applications Using Lightweight Agents

Chapter 10 Solving Dynamic Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems with a Modified Weak-Commitment Search Algorithm

Chapter 11 Development of Self-organising Emergent Applications with Simulation-Based Numerical Analysis

Chapter 12 On the Role of Simulations in Engineering Self-organising MAS: The Case of an Intrusion Detection System in TuCSoN

Chapter 13 Mesoscopic Modeling of Emergent Behavior – A Self-organizing Deliberative Minority Game

Chapter 14 Pheromone Model: Application to Traffic Congestion Prediction

Chapter 16 Sift and Sort: Climbing the Semantic Pyramid

Chapter 17 Agent-Based Control of Spatially Distributed Chemical Reactor Networks

Chapter 18 A Study of System Nervousness in Multi-agent Manufacturing Control System