Engineering Self-Organising Systems Methodologies and Applicatio
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 ab
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
3464
Sven A. Brueckner Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo Anthony Karageorgos Radhika Nagpal (Eds.)
Engineering Self-Organising Systems Methodologies and Applications
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Sven A. Brueckner Altarum Institute 3520 Green Court, Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1579, USA E-mail: [email protected] Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo University of Geneva, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique 24 rue Général-Dufour, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Anthony Karageorgos University of Thessaly, Department of Computer and Communication Engineering 37 Glavani - 28th October Str., Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor, room D3/4 382 21 Volos, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Radhika Nagpal Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Computer Science Dept., 235 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The spread of the Internet, mobile communications and the proliferation of new market models, such as e-commerce, has resulted in the whole information infrastructure operating as a global dynamic system. The complexity and the inherent dynamism of the resulting global system require software capable of autonomously changing its structure and functionality to meet dynamic changes in the requirements and the environment without immediate human intervention. In particular, contemporary software applications must provide highly customised services to a huge user population by dynamically adapting to personal requirements. Furthermore, new maintenance approaches need to be followed, for example continuously running software should evolve on run-time to meet ever-changing user requirements. Finally
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