Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I – Introduction.- Design versus Self-Organization.- Foundations and Formalizations of Self-Organization.- Part II – Distributed Management and Control.- Self-Organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation.- Self-Organizing Sensing of Structures: Monitoring a Space Vehicle Thermal Protection System.- Decentralized Decision Making for Ad-hoc Multi-Agent Systems.- Learning Mutation Strategies for Evaluation and Adaptation of a Simulated Snakebot.- Self-Organization as Phase Transition in Decentralized Groups of Robots: A Study Based on Boltzmann Entropy.- Distributed Control of Microscopic Robots in Biomedical Applications.- Part III – Self-Organizing Computation.- Self-Organizing Computing Systems: Songline Processors.- Self-Organizing Nomadic Services in Grids.- Immune System Support for Scheduling.- Formal Immune Networks: Self-Organization and Real-World Applications.- A Model for Self-Organizing Data Visualization using Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems.- Memristive Excitable Automata: Structural Dynamics, Phenomenology, Localizations and Conductive Pathways.- Part IV – Discussion.- A Turing Test for Emergence.- Index.