Engineering Self-Organising Systems: Third International Workshop, ESOA 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

The idea that self—organisation and emergence can be harnessed for the purpose of solving tricky engineering problems is becoming increasingly accepted. — searchers working in many diverse fields (such as networks, distributed systems, operating systems and agent systems) are beginning to apply this new approach. This book contains recent work from a broad range of areas with the common theme of utilising self—organisation productively. As distributed information infrastructures continue to...