Lakeside Research Days'09

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