Self-organizing systems : 6th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop, IWSOS 2012, Delft, the Netherlands, March 15-16, 2012. Proceedings / Fernando A. Kuipers, Poul E. Heegaard (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Distributed Storage Management Using Dynamic Pricing in a Self-Organized Energy Community / Ebisa Negeri and Nico Baken -- Ant-Based Systems for Wireless Networks: Retrospect and Prospects / Laurent Paquereau and Bjarne E. Helvik -- Triadic Motifs and Dyadic Self-Organization in the World Trade Network / Tiziano Squartini and Diego Garlaschelli -- On Measurement of Internal Variables of Complex Self-Organized Systems and Their Relation to Multifractal Spectra / Dalibor Štys, Petr Jizba, Štěpán Papáček, Tomáš Náhlík and Petr Císař -- Self-Organised Routing for Road Networks / Holger Prothmann, Sven Tomforde, Johannes Lyda, Jürgen Branke and Jörg Hähner, et al. -- P2P and Cloud: A Marriage of Convenience for Replica Management / Hanna Kavalionak and Alberto Montresor -- Self-Organizing Spatio-temporal Pattern Formation in Two-Dimensional Daisyworld / Dharani Punithan and R.I. (Bob) McKay -- Heuristic Resource Search in a Self-Organised Distributed Multi Agent System / Muntasir Al-Asfoor, Brendan Neville and Maria Fasli -- A Quantitative Measure, Mechanism and Attractor for Self-Organization in Networked Complex Systems / Georgi Yordanov Georgiev -- MetroNet: A Metropolitan Simulation Model Based on Commuting Processes / Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal and Juval Portugali -- Robustness of Self-Organizing Consensus Algorithms: Initial Results from a Simulation-Based Study / Alexander Gogolev and Christian Bettstetter -- Initial Experiments in Using Communication Swarms to Improve the Performance of Swarm Systems / Stephen M. Majercik.

Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2012, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in March 2012. The 5 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected from 25 full paper and 8 short paper submissions. The papers address the following key topics: design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems; inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society; structure, characteristics and dynamics of self-organizing networks; techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems; robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems; self-organization in complex networks like peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc, vehicular and social networks; control of self-organizing systems; decentralized power management in the smart grid; self-organizing group and pattern formation; self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation; self-organizing information dissemination and content search; and risks and limits of self-organization.