Engineering Self-Organising Systems 4th International Workshop, ESOA 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brueckner, Sven A. (Editor), Hassas, Salima (Editor), Jelasity, Márk (Editor), Yamins, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4335
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Operating systems (Computers).; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.; Operating Systems.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

Table of Contents:

• Overall Design and Fundations
• Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents
• An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems
• Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems
• Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants
• Algorithms and Techniques
• Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering
• Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior
• Applications
• Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware
• ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks
• Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem
• Self-organization and Evolutionary Computing
• Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms
• Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them
• Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment
• A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm.