Requirement for low operating and deployment costs of cellular networks motivate the need for self-organisation in cellular networks. To reduce operational costs, self-organising networks are fast becoming a necessity. One key issue in this context is self-organised coverage estimation that is done based on the signal strength measurement and reported position information of system users. In th...

Introduction A growing phenomena is that firms become interdependent in networks of relationships. This is especially true for some of the '.com new-economy' firms, whose business models focus on organising networks. The Internet augments the mediating, network organising, nature of many economic agents. A recent survey of E-management in the Economist (2000-10-11) reports how General Electric ...

I discuss the view of communication networks as self-organised critical systems, the mathematical models that may be needed to describe the emergent properties of such networks, and how certain security hygiene schemes may push a network into a super-critical state, potentially leading to large scale security disasters.

Typical unsupervised learning, also called self-organisation, makes each neuron responsive to one of the input signals frequently presented. The prominent response of a neuron has been considered as a feature-detecting signal. It is found that a network organised under unsupervised learning has an information classification scheme rather than a mere ability to detect. Each bit of information is...

This paper discusses the purposes, requirements and challenges of creating pervasive networks of devices that have sensor technology and embedded computation. The demands placed on these sensor networks suggest that they have to function in a similar way to self-organised biological systems so concepts can be taken from them to design appropriate models for how sensor networks could work. This ...

An introduction into self organizing cellular networks is presented. This topic has generated a lot of research interest over the past few years as operators have identified it as a necessary feature in future wireless communication systems. We review projects which have studied self organization and with knowledge of system model design in computing, we suggest design rules in developing robus...

The paper focuses on new ways of organising product development projects in the construction industry. We discuss two such projects, one in Denmark and one in Finland where different forms of ‘network organisation’ have been tried out. The paper looks at how the existing structure in the construction industry affects the product development projects ‘organised-as-networks’. INTRODUCTION AND PUR...