Future Research Directions, PhD Topics

Future Research Directions in Self-organizing and Complex Systems

• Emergence
• Social computing
  • monitoring and control of social systems
  • transportation systems
  • web of data/linked data
• Methodologies for design and control of S-O.S.
  • trust
  • vulnerability
  • validation/verification
  • multi-scale interactions
  • Related work:
    • Frei, R. and Di Marzo Serugendo, G. (2011). Advances in Complexity Engineering. To appear Int. J. of Bio-Inspired Computation. [1]
    • Gershenson, C. (2007). Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. CopIt ArXives, Mexico. TS0002EN. [2]

PhD topics

• A Methodology for Design and Control of S-O.S. with verification/validation
• Some S-O. transportation application