C9 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction

presented by Luca Gardelli

Self-organisation and emergence: definitions and history, examples from natural and artificial systems, stigmergy, and how self-organising MAS can be engineered.

course of the deck

Multi-Agent Systems LS (2nd cycle, 2007/2008) — Andrea Omicini

used in the lectures

Sat 24 Nov 2007, 11:00

same deck in other editions

C11 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction — Multi-Agent Systems LS 2008/2009

C15 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction — Multi-Agent Systems LS 2009/2010

C10 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction — Multi-Agent Systems LM (Module 1) 2010/2011

C14 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction — Multi-Agent Systems LM (Module 1) 2011/2012

C14 – Self-Organisation & MAS: An Introduction — Multi-Agent Systems LM (Module 1) 2012/2013

reference publication

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Principles of Self-Organizing Dynamic Systems (article in journal, 1947) — W. Ross Ashby

Design patterns from biology for distributed computing (article in journal, 2006) — Ozalp Babaoglu, Geoffrey Canright, Andreas Deutsch, Gianni A. Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca Maria Gambardella, Niloy Ganguly, Márk Jelasity, Roberto Montemanni, Alberto Montresor, Tore Urnes

Designing Agents' Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Carole Bernon, Valérie Camps, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Gauthier Picard

Enhancing Self-organising Emergent Systems Design with Simulation (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Carole Bernon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Gauthier Picard

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Swarm Smarts (article in journal, 2000) — Eric Bonabeau, Guy Théraulaz

Self-Organization in Biological Systems (book, 2001) — Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau

Model Checking (book, 1999) — Edmund M. Clarke, Orna Grumberg, Doron Peleg

Emergence Versus Self-Organisation: Different Concepts but Promising When Combined (book chapter, 2005) — Tom De Wolf, Tom Holvoet

Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Tom De Wolf, Tom Holvoet

Development of Self-organising Emergent Applications with Simulation-Based Numerical Analysis (paper in proceedings, 2006) — Tom De Wolf, Tom Holvoet, Giovanni Samaey

Ant Colony Optimization (book, 2004) — Marco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle

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Design Patterns (book, 1995) — Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Designing Self-organising MAS Environments: The Collective Sort Case (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini

Designing Self-Organising Environments with Agents and Artefacts: A Simulation-Driven Approach (article in journal, 2008) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini

On the Role of Simulations in Engineering Self-Organising MAS: The Case of an Intrusion Detection System in TuCSoN (paper in proceedings, 2006) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

Design Patterns for Self-Organising Systems (paper in proceedings, 2007) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues (article in journal, 1999) — Jeffrey Goldstein

La reconstruction du nid et les coordinations interindividuelles chez Bellicositermes natalensis et Cubitermes sp. la théorie de la stigmergie: Essai d'interprétation du comportement des termites constructeurs (article in journal, 1959) — Pierre-Paul Grassé

The Vision of Autonomic Computing (article in journal, 2003) — Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess

Environment in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies (article in journal, 2009) — Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli

Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds (book, 1994) — Mitchel Resnick

Programming MAS with Artifacts (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control (paper in proceedings, 2005) — John A. Sauter, Robert S. Matthews, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner

Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems (book, 2006) — Ricard V. Solé, Jordi Bascompte

Decentralized control of E'GV transportation systems (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet, Tom Lefever