Engineering Self-Organising Systems Book

Overall Design and Fundations
Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents   H. Van Dyke Parunak   Paul Nielsen   Sven Brueckner   Rafael Alonso     1
An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems   Sebastian Rodriguez   Nicolas Gaud   Vincent Hilaire   Stephane Galland   Abderrafiaa Koukam     15
Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems   Tom De Wolf   Tom Holvoet     28
Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants   Laszlo Gulyas   Laszlo Laufer   Richard Szabo     50
Algorithms and Techniques
Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering   H. Van Dyke Parunak   Richard Rohwer   Theodore C. Belding   Sven Brueckner     66
Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior   Amit Shabtay   Zinovi Rabinovich   Jeffrey S. Rosenschein     82
Applications
Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware   Marco Mamei   Franco Zambonelli     99
ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks   Jorge Simao     115
Towards the Control ofEmergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem   Frederic Armetta   Salima Hassas   Simone Pimont   Olivier Lefevre     132
Self-organization and Evolutionary Computing
Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms   A.E. Eiben   Mark Horvath   Wojtek Kowalczyk   Martijn C. Schut     151
Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them   Stefano Arteconi   David Hales   Ozalp Babaoglu     161
Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment   Mariusz Nowostawski   Martin Purvis     176
A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm   Martin Kelly   Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo     192
Author Index     211