Today'software systems have to cope with changing environments while at the same time
facing high non-functional requirements such as flexibility and dependability. Recently …

Current research initiatives like Organic Computing (OC) and Intelligent Environments (IEs)
aim at building technology-driven embedded systems that are aware of the conditions in the …

Open Distributed Systems, be it the Internet, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce systems,
Desktop Grid Systems, wireless sensor networks, or vehicular ad-hoc networks, have …

Self-adaptation and self-organisation (SASO) are increasingly used in information and
communication technology to master complexity and keep the administrative effort at an …

Driven by market trends towards highly-personalised products, the manufacturing industry is
facing a variety of challenges that require systems to be adaptive, robust, resilient, and …

The paradigm of self-organisation is fundamental to theories of collective action in economic
science and democratic governance in political science. Self-organisation in these social …

The formation of hierarchies within large-scale systems can solve problems of scalability
and distributed control. In this paper, we suggest a self-organising partitioning control …

Self-organisation is a promising solution for building complicated, large-scale software
systems that must meet stringent adaptability and survivability requirements. At the same …

Small-to medium-scale enterprise systems are typically complex and highly specialized, but
lack the management resources that can be devoted to large-scale (eg, Cloud) systems …

Self-* systems have the ability to adapt to a changing environment and to compensate
component failures by reorganizing themselves. However, as these systems make …