Distributed Algorithms for Self-adapting and Self-organizing Systems

Distributed Algorithms for Self-adapting and Self-organizing Systems
Author: John C. Meyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013
Genre: Adaptive control systems
ISBN:

Over the last half century computing power and the proliferation of computing devices have increased at an exponential rate. Smart phones are becoming more prevalent allowing access to other people, other systems, and information. This growth coupled with the explosion of networking and the Internet has tied these disparate devices together. At the present rate of growth the complexity appears to be approaching the limits of human capability. This increase in complexity has lead to IBM's Grand Challenge in Autonomic Computing. In autonomic computing, computers should be able to handle mundane tasks themselves, adapting to their environment, allowing users to specify their needs at a higher level. Two areas of autonomic computing dominate current research in industry and academia in response to the challenge, namely: Data centers, and distributed computing. Much progress has been made related to specific problems in these domains including power management, visualization, work load distribution, and scalability. However, much remains to be done in the areas of design, trustworthiness, validation, and certification of these systems. This dissertation aims to contribute to addressing the challenge. It proposes a method to specify the needs of a system and then translate those specifications into an algorithm for a distributed, networked, federated system that meets the specified goals. To validate the approach case studies in both self-adapting and self-organizing systems are explored. The first is a self-adaptive system which manages a scarce resource in a changing environment. As the environment changes the system adapts to optimize resource usage. The next two use agents who collaborate to self-organize to perform the function desired in an adaptive fashion. The design inspiration in these approaches comes from two different natural paradigms: Newtonian forces and potential energy. The case studies are assessed and validated through a series of qualitative and quantitative metrics.

Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems

Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems
Author: Mikhail Prokopenko
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007-11-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1846289823

This book presents the state-of-the-art in successfully engineered self-organizing systems. It goes further, too, to examine ways to balance design and self-organization in the context of applications. As demonstrated throughout, finding this balance helps to deal with diverse practical challenges. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic and provide guidance on its more intricate areas.

Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm

Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm
Author: Donald Davendra
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319281615

This book brings together the current state of-the-art research in Self Organizing Migrating Algorithm (SOMA) as a novel population-based evolutionary algorithm, modeled on the predator-prey relationship, by its leading practitioners. As the first ever book on SOMA, this book is geared towards graduate students, academics and researchers, who are looking for a good optimization algorithm for their applications. This book presents the methodology of SOMA, covering both the real and discrete domains, and its various implementations in different research areas. The easy-to-follow and implement methodology used in the book will make it easier for a reader to implement, modify and utilize SOMA.

Self-Organizing Systems

Self-Organizing Systems
Author: Karin Anna Hummel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540921567

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2008, held in Vienna, Austria, December 10-12, 2008. The 20 revised full papers and 13 revised short papers presented were carefully selected from the 70 full and 24 short paper submissions from authors from 33 different countries. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks as well as resource and service management.

Self-Organizing Systems

Self-Organizing Systems
Author: Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642108644

We welcome you to the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009) hosted at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. IWSOS provides an annual forum to present and discuss recent research in self-organization focused on networks and networked systems. Research in se- organizingnetworkedsystemshasadvancedinrecentyears,buttheinvestigation of its potentials and limits still leaves challenging and appealing open research issues for this and subsequent IWSOS workshops. Complexandheterogeneousnetworksmakeself-organizationhighlydesirable. Bene?ts envisioned by self-organization are the inherent robustness and ada- ability to new dynamic tra?c, topology changes, and scaling of networks. In - dition to an increasingly complex Future Internet, a number of domain-speci?c subnetworks bene?t from advances in self-organization, including wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks, e.g., vehi- lar ad-hoc networks. Self-organization in networked systems is often inspired by other domains, such as nature (evolution theory, swarm intelligence), sociology (human cooperation), and economics (game theory). Aspects of controllability, engineering,testing,andmonitoringofself-organizingnetworksremainchalle- ing and are of particular interest to IWSOS. This year, we received 34 full paper and 27 short paper submissions. The highquality ofthe submissionsallowedus toprovideastrongtechnicalprogram.

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics
Author: K. Srujan Raju
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 881
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811514801

This book features high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (ICCII 2018), which was held on 28–29 December 2018 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India. The papers focus on topics such as data mining, wireless sensor networks, parallel computing, image processing, network security, MANETS, natural language processing and Internet of things.

Self-Organization in Embedded Real-Time Systems

Self-Organization in Embedded Real-Time Systems
Author: M. Teresa Higuera-Toledano
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461419697

This book describes the emerging field of self-organizing, multicore, distributed and real-time embedded systems. Self ‐organization of both hardware and software can be a key technique to handle the growing complexity of modern computing systems. Distributed systems running hundreds of tasks on dozens of processors, each equipped with multiple cores, requires self‐organization principles to ensure efficient and reliable operation. This book addresses various, so-called Self‐X features such as self-configuration, self‐optimization, self‐adaptation, self‐healing and self‐protection.

Self-Organized Mobile Communication Technologies and Techniques for Network Optimization

Self-Organized Mobile Communication Technologies and Techniques for Network Optimization
Author: Diab, Ali
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1522502408

With increased consumer use and adoption, mobile communication technologies are faced with the challenge of creating an adequate wireless networking architecture that can support a high degree of scalability, performance, and reliability in a cost-effective manner without comprising security or quality of service. Self-Organized Mobile Communication Technologies and Techniques for Network Optimization explores self-organizing networks (SONs) as a proposed solution for the automation of mobile communication tasks that currently require significant efforts for planning, operation, and management. Emphasizing research on the latest generation of mobile communication networks, the 5th generation (5G), this publication proposes timely solutions and presents the latest developments in the field of mobile communication technologies. IT developers, engineers, graduate-level students, and researchers will find this publication to be essential to their research needs.

Self-organising Software

Self-organising Software
Author: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642173489

Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organising applications dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention, responding to changes in requirements and the environment. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems. The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organisation concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organising behaviour can be modelled, analysed and systematically engineered into agent behaviour; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organising multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking. The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines. Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed interactive software and information-handling systems. Self-organising applications dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention, responding to changes in requirements and the environment. This is the first book to offer an integrated view of self-organisation technologies applied to distributed systems, particularly focusing on multiagent systems. The editors developed this integrated book with three aims: to explain self-organisation concepts and principles, using clear definitions and a strong theoretical background; to examine how self-organising behaviour can be modelled, analysed and systematically engineered into agent behaviour; and to assess the types of problems that can be solved using self-organising multiagent systems. The book comprises chapters covering all three dimensions, synthesising up-to-date research work and the latest technologies and applications. The book offers dedicated chapters on concepts such as self-organisation, emergence in natural systems, software agents, stigmergy, gossip, cooperation and immune systems. The book then explains how to engineer artificial self-organising software, in particular it examines methodologies and middleware infrastructures. Finally, the book presents diverse applications of self-organising software, such as constraint satisfaction, trust management, image recognition and networking. The book will be of interest to researchers working on emergent phenomena and adaptive systems. It will also be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with chapter summaries and exercises, and an accompanying website that includes teaching slides, exercise solutions and research project outlines.

Trustworthy Open Self-Organising Systems

Trustworthy Open Self-Organising Systems
Author: Wolfgang Reif
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-06-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319292013

This book treats the computational use of social concepts as the focal point for the realisation of a novel class of socio-technical systems, comprising smart grids, public display environments, and grid computing. These systems are composed of technical and human constituents that interact with each other in an open environment. Heterogeneity, large scale, and uncertainty in the behaviour of the constituents and the environment are the rule rather than the exception. Ensuring the trustworthiness of such systems allows their technical constituents to interact with each other in a reliable, secure, and predictable way while their human users are able to understand and control them. "Trustworthy Open Self-Organising Systems" contains a wealth of knowledge, from trustworthy self-organisation mechanisms, to trust models, methods to measure a user's trust in a system, a discussion of social concepts beyond trust, and insights into the impact open self-organising systems will have on society.