Industrial Applications of Self-organizing Systems

Task description

• Discuss the need for self-organizing systems in industrial applications
• Give examples of success stories/potentials
• What is missing to "make things work"?

Results

Industrial View

• Collaboration has to improve the Business Case
• Return on investment
  • Someone has to pay for it
  • Add value
• Who is in control up to in the end?

Basis for collaboration

• Bring together industry and academia
  • Two different languages
  • Partnerships
• Early transfer to the industry
  • NOTE: easier to justify than in the industry
• Present a benefit to the industry: way to make money
  • New concepts difficult to accept; conservativeness
  • Common set of working assumptions
  • The power of a business plan
  • Do not switch research agenda

What is missing?

• Research is there; sometimes too advanced
• Assurance of method properties is a necessary prerequisite for application of SOS methods in industrial products/settings
• Clear understanding on the application of self-organizing principles to the specific application
  • internet-based applications: interaction between human self-organization and overlay network self-organization
  • vehicular communications: micro-macro dependencies
  • future wireless networks: self-organization of heterogeneous networks
  • smart grid: self-organization up to a point, but needs to be able to react to severe oscillations
• Communication between industrial and academic needs to be improved
  • Research Days
• Open questions:
  • Who is control up to in the end?
  • Timeliness and external constraints (regulation)

Success stories

• LTE?!
• Power distribution
• Internet-based industrial applications
• Vehicular networking