Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems

Part I: Introduction.- Design versus Self-organization.- Foundations and Formalizations of Self-Organization.- Part II: Distributed Management and Control.- Self-organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation.- A Self-organizing Sensing System for Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Vehicles.- Decentralized Decision Making for Multi-Agent Systems.- Learning Mutation Strategies for Evolution and Adaptation of a Simulated Snakebot.- Self-Organization as Phase Transition in Decentralized Groups of Robots.- Distributed Control of Microscopic Robots in Biomedical Applications.- Part III: Self-organizing Computation.- Self-Organizing Digital Systems.- Self-organizing Nomadic Services in Grids.- Immune System Support for Scheduling.- Formal Immune Networks.- A Model for Self-organizing Data Visualization Using Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems.- Emergence of Travelling Localizations in Mutualistic-Excitation Media.- Part IV: Discussion.- A Turing Test for Emergence.- Index.