Group 2

Challenges

• General:
  • How to design local rules achieving the desired global properties?
  • Non-trivial but approaches exist.
• Chaos nature: Stochastic input. Description of complex current state is impossible, which makes it impossible to predict future states.
• Malicious nodes, faults, defects
• Rare events may lead to major global effects. Repeatability of results
• Modeling and design
• Testing a proposed self-organizing system with respect to a given goal can be difficult (many entities, large operational range)

Ideas

• "Immune system" as an umbrella around self-organizing system
• Optimize probability to end up in desired state

Side note

• Heylighen: "interaction pattern are not specified"