Difference between revisions of "Challenges in Engineering Self-Organizing Systems"

Revision as of 15:55, 12 July 2010

Design of emergence:
- How to design local rules achieving the desired global properties?
- Non-trivial but approaches exist.

Design of the communication / interaction protocol:
- Degrees of freedom and adaptability

Simple versus chaotic behavior: Can we describe the system state?
- The state of some self-organizing systems can be easily modeled (firefly sync)
- The state of other self-organizing systems cannot be modeled, they exhibit chaotic behavior, which makes it impossible to predict future states.

Testing:
- It can be very difficult to test a proposed self-organizing system with respect to a given goal (many entities, large operational range, chaotic behavior)
- Rare events may lead to major global effects.
- Repeatability of results

User aspects
- To what extend can today’s systems be replaced or complemented by self-organizing systems, taking into account
  - constraints and acceptance of the technology and
  - risks for users?

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+* '''Design of emergence''':
+** How to design ''local rules'' achieving the desired ''global properties''?
+** Non-trivial but approaches exist.
+* '''Design of the communication / interaction protocol''':
+** Degrees of freedom and adaptability
+* '''Simple versus chaotic behavior''': Can we describe the system state?
+** The state of some self-organizing systems can be easily modeled (firefly sync)
+** The state of other self-organizing systems cannot be modeled, they exhibit chaotic behavior, which makes it impossible to predict future states.
+* '''Robustness issues'''
+** Malicious nodes, faults, defects
+* '''Testing''':
+** It can be very difficult to test a proposed self-organizing system with respect to a given goal (many entities, large operational range, chaotic behavior)
+** Rare events may lead to major global effects.
+** Repeatability of results
+* '''User aspects'''
+** To what extend can today’s systems be replaced or complemented by self-organizing systems, taking into account
+*** constraints and acceptance of the technology and
+*** risks for users?
 ==Documents from group work==
 * [[Group 2]]