ESOA 2005

Self-organising behaviour is often the result of the execution of a number of individual application components that locally interact with each other aiming to achieve their local goals, for example systems that are based on agents or distributed objects. The main characteristic of such systems is their ability to achieve complex collective tasks with relatively simple individual behaviours, without central or hierarchical control. A major open issue is therefore how to engineer desirable emergent behaviour in self-organising applications and how to avoid undesirable one given the requirements and the application environment. Engineers often take inspiration from the real world, for example from biology, chemistry, sociology and the physical world. For example, typical examples are systems that reproduce socially-based insect behaviour, such as ants-based systems, artificial life, or robots. Although the results achieved so far are promising, further work is required until the problem is sufficiently addressed. This year workshop particularly welcomes papers describing works on foundations of emergent behaviour and self-organisation, development methodologies, middleware infrastructures supporting adaptive behaviour, and industrial applications.

topics of interest

multi-agent and distributed systems • novel self-organising mechanisms • methodologies, models and engineering tools • peer-to-peer, mobile, wireless and ubiquitous systems • coordination and adaptation without centralised control • practical applications of self-organising mechanisms.

hosting event

 AAMAS 2005

colocated event

 ANI@REM 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  AOSE 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  ArgMAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  DALT 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  E4MAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  OOOP 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  PROMAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  AP2PC 2005 @ AAMAS 2005

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

origin event for publication

 On the Role of Simulations in Engineering Self-Organizing MAS: the Case of an Intrusion Detection System in TuCSoN (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, 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

hosted event for

 AAMAS 2005

colocated event for

 DALT 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  PROMAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  ArgMAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  OOOP 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  AP2PC 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  ANI@REM 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  AOSE 2005 @ AAMAS 2005 •  E4MAS 2005 @ AAMAS 2005

series event

 International Workshop “Engineering Self-Organising Applications”