Difference between revisions of "Lakeside Research Days'09"

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Prologue

This meeting has been held on Friday, 19th of June 2009, 9AM - 1PM. The overall aim of this meeting was to collect ideas/problems which should be tackled during the Lakeside Labs Research Days09. Hence, groups have been formed and asked to work on the following tasks:

• Name 3+ research areas of different research groups which are related to Self-organization and robustness (and explain why).
• Look at the expertise of invited researchers and your results from the above question and propose 3+ research questions that could be tackled at the research days.
• Try to rank both lists.

Group1

Members of this group are Christian Hofbauer (NES/ES), Alex Onic (NES/ES), Markus Reichhartinger (SST/CM) and Evsen Yanmaz (NES/MS).

During the discussion process with respect to the first task, a lot of problems occured due to the loose and unclear definition of the term self-organization. Since this term is already not well-defined, the problems increase when additionally considering robustness in the context of self-organization. For instance, the research area of control theory seems to us as a classical field where the definitions cannot be brought inline with the theory in this field. Robustness of course requires to adapt to certain disturbances. In order to notice these disturbances, there has to be a kind of feedback loop which allows for reacting on unintended changes in the output. This reaction is

Hence, the main results of this group work focus on the second task, namely finding research questions.