Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering

As information handling systems get more and more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage them using traditional approaches based on centralized and pre—defined control mechanisms. Over recent years, there has been a significant increase in taking inspiration from biology, the physical world, chemistry, and social systems to more efficiently manage such systems — generally based on the concept of self—organisation; this gave rise to self—organising applications.

This book cons...