Organic Computing - A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems

Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Its basis is the insight that we will increasingly be surrounded by and depend on large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organising themselves in order to perform actions and services required by the users.

These networks of intelligent systems surrounding us open fascinating ap-plication ar...