Self-organising Vocabularies

Self-organising Systems

Objectives The objective of this chapter is to introduce the subject of selforganising software systems. When you will have read this chapter, you will: • Know the answers to key introductory questions to self-organising systems; • Understand what self-organising software is and why it is important; • Obtain an understanding of different self-organising system types that can be found in nature;...

Self-Managing and Self-Organising Mobile Computing Applications: a Separation of Concerns approach

Self-organising systems are being developed in an ad-hoc way, without reusing functionalities, thus producing a software difficult to maintain and to reuse in other applications. The development of self-organising applications and a fortiori the one of self-organising mobile applications is limited to developers who are experts in specific self-organising mechanisms. This paper discusses the no...

The self-organising map, robustness, self-organising criticality and power law

Self-organising Applications Using Lightweight Agents

Self-organisation in nature is responsible for many complex and persistent phenomena. This suggests that self-organisation may be useful in the creation of complex applications. Multiagent systems use multiple agents to execute complex activities, and thus may be a basis for self-organising applications. In this paper we describe applications using self-organisation based upon the DIET multi-ag...

On Document Classification with Self-Organising Maps

This research deals with the use of self-organising maps for the classification of text documents. The aim was to classify documents to separate classes according to their topics. We therefore constructed self-organising maps that were effective for this task and tested them with German newspaper documents. We compared the results gained to those of k nearest neighbour searching and k-means clu...