Future Research Directions, PhD Topics
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Future Research Directions in Self-organizing and Complex Systems
- Emergence
- Social computing
- monitoring and control of social systems
- transportation systems
- web of data/linked data
- Methodologies for design and control of S-O.S.
- trust
- vulnerability
- validation/verification
- multi-scale interactions
- Related work:
- Software Engineering methodology (SE paradigm like the Evolutionary one to speed up design)
- Theoretical foundation of SOS (a sort of NP-completeness theory, to say for which problems the SO approach is better than the alternatives and waht wes hould expect from them)
- Macro-levels models (tools to understand what happens not only at the micro-level)
- Socio-technical systems
- Systems including human and technical components both self-organizing
- Use case: intelligent transportation in cities to reduce travel time, CO_2 emissions, etc. (public transport, vehicles, pedestrians)
- Use case: intelligent waste management - collecting and recycling of goods/waste in an autonomous way
- Assistive cooperative systems
- Systems assisting humans on-demand, autonomous assembly and sharing of components
- Components may be robots, software, etc.
PhD topics
- A Methodology for Design and Control of S-O.S. with verification/validation
- Some S-O. transportation application