Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: Conceptual and Practical Foundations

Ozalp Babaoglu, Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi (auth.), Ozalp Babaoglu, Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi, Aad van Moorsel, Maarten van Steen (eds.)3540260099, 9783540260097

This book is a spin-off of a by-invitation-only workshop on self-* properties in complex systems held in summer 2004 in Bertinoro, Italy. The workshop aimed to identify the conceptual and practical foundations for modeling, analyzing, and achieving self-* properties in distributed and networked systems. Based on the discussions at the workshop, papers were solicited from workshop participants and invited from leading researchers in the field. Besides presenting sound research results, the papers also present visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas, and exploratory results.

The 27 carefully reviewed revised full papers, presented together with a motivating introduction and overview, are organized in topical sections on self-organization, self-awareness, self-awareness versus self-organization, supporting self-properties, and peer-to-peer algorithms.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
The Self-Star Vision….Pages 1-20
Evolving Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Graceful Degradation of Software….Pages 21-35
Evolutionary Computing and Autonomic Computing: Shared Problems, Shared Solutions?….Pages 36-48
Self-⋆ Topology Control in Wireless Multihop Ad Hoc Communication Networks….Pages 49-62
Emergent Consensus in Decentralised Systems Using Collaborative Reinforcement Learning….Pages 63-80
The Biologically Inspired Distributed File System: An Emergent Thinker Instantiation….Pages 81-96
Evolutionary Games: An Algorithmic View….Pages 97-111
Model Based Diagnosis and Contexts in Self Adaptive Software….Pages 112-127
On the Use of Online Analytic Performance Models, in Self-Managing and Self-Organizing Computer Systems….Pages 128-142
Prediction-Based Software Availability Enhancement….Pages 143-157
Making Self-Adaptation an Engineering Reality….Pages 158-173
An Online Control Framework for Designing Self-Optimizing Computing Systems: Application to Power Management….Pages 174-188
Self-Management of Systems Through Automatic Restart….Pages 189-203
Fundamentals of Dynamic Decentralized Optimization in Autonomic Computing Systems….Pages 204-218
The Conflict Between Self-* Capabilities and Predictability….Pages 219-228
Self-Aware Software – Will It Become a Reality?….Pages 229-259
A Case for Design Methodology Research in Self-* Distributed Systems….Pages 260-272
Enabling Autonomic Grid Applications: Requirements, Models and Infrastructure….Pages 273-290
Pandora: An Efficient Platform for the Construction of Autonomic Applications….Pages 291-306
Spatial Computing: The TOTA Approach….Pages 307-324
Towards Self-Managing QoS-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Systems….Pages 325-342
Cooperative Content Distribution: Scalability Through Self-Organization….Pages 343-357
Design and Analysis of a Bio-inspired Search Algorithm for Peer to Peer Networks….Pages 358-372
Multifaceted Simultaneous Load Balancing in DHT-Based P2P Systems: A New Game with Old Balls and Bins….Pages 373-391
Robust Locality-Aware Lookup Networks….Pages 392-402
Power-Aware Distributed Protocol for a Connectivity Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks….Pages 403-416
Self-Management of Virtual Paths in Dynamic Networks….Pages 417-432
Sociologically Inspired Approaches for Self-*: Examples and Prospects….Pages 433-445
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