On the “Local-to-Global” Issue in Self-Organisation: Chemical Reactions with Custom Kinetic Rates

Stefano Mariani

Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014, pages 61 -67
Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014, September 2014
IEEE, London, UK
Best student paper award

The “local-to-global” issue in self-organisation is about finding a way to engineer local mechanisms according to the emergent, global behaviour desired for the system at hand. In this paper, we propose an approach to deal with such issue, by modelling the local mechanisms as artificial chemical reactions and by carefully designing their kinetic rates as “custom” functional expressions.

@proceedings{mok-focas2014,
Address = {London, UK},
Author = {Mariani, Stefano},
Booktitle = {8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014},
Doi = {10.1109/SASOW.2014.14},
Ieeeno = 7056354,
Isbn-Online = {ISBN 978-1-4799-6378-2},
Location = {London, UK},
Month = sep,
Note = {Best student paper award},
Pages = {61--67},
Publisher = {IEEE CS},
Series = {Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014},
Title = {On the ``Local-to-Global'' Issue in Self-Organisation: Chemical Reactions with Custom Kinetic Rates},
Url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7056354},
Year = 2014}