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This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11181 “Organic Computing – Design of Self-Organizing Systems”. Seminar 1.–6. May, 2011 – www.dagstuhl.de/11181 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.1.1 Models of computation.

It is difficult to relate a design approach to a term that stands for a class of computing systems that exhibit certain behaviors, as they belong to different phenomenologic categories. We will, however, compare the assumptions that the two approaches are based on, and draw our conclusions about the situations in which each of the strategies is useful. Model-driven design is an approach that ai...

Hybrid organic-inorganic materials offer a wide range of interesting applications especially in optics. Chemistry plays a major role in the elaboration and comprehension of such materials. Sol-gel process provide a method to blend, down to the molecular scale, organic and inorganic components. Examples of hybrid organic-inorganic materials for optics and optical characterizations of hybrid mate...

Metallo-organic molecules with highly conjugated pi-electrons, like phthalocyanines (Pc's), are widely investigated for usage in electronic and electro-optic devices. However, their weak coupling with semiconductors is an obstacle to technological applications. Here we report a first-principle theoretical study of some fundamental features of the Pc-semiconductor interaction. Our results shed l...

To date, trial and error strategies guided by intuition have dominated the identification of materials suitable for a specific application. We are entering a data-rich, modelling-driven era where such Edisonian approaches are gradually being replaced by rational strategies, which couple predictions from advanced computational screening with targeted experimental synthesis and validation. Here, ...

Solubility data of solid in aqueous and different organic solvents are very important physicochemical properties considered in the design of the industrial processes and the theoretical studies. In this study, experimental solubility data of 666 pharmaceutical compounds in water and 712 pharmaceutical compounds in organic solvents were collected from different sources. Three different artificia...

in order to study the effects of different nutrition systems (organic, chemical and integrated) and biofertilizer (pgpr) on phenology period, grain yield and its component in sunflower (helianthus annuus l.) an experiment was conducted using alestar cultivar at the research farm of college of agriculture, tarbiat modares university in 2007. five levels of nutrition systems including f1 (100% or...

Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system aimed at sustainableproduction of safe food, environmental protection and maintenance of soil health. The objectiveof this study was to evaluate, in a period of organic transition, the effects of different organicfertilizers on wheat yield, grain quality and soil characteristics. The research was performedin an experimental farm ...

to study the effect of salinity and organic matter on chemical composition and root morphology of pistachio cv. badami, budded on seedling root stocks, a greenhouse experiment was conducted as a factorial based on a completely randomized design with three replications. treatments consisted of four salinity (zero, 800, 1600 and 2400 mg nacl kg-1 soil) and three organic matter (zero, two and four...