GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion on

Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems

July 13th 2007 (cancelled), University of Passau, Germany

Important Announcement

Unfortunately, the number of submissions to PMSOS 2007 was very low. Thus, PMSOS 2007 has to be delayed/canceled. The new date has yet to be negotiated. It will be announced in time.

Overview

Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable.

 

Following PMSOS 2006, we again aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting once more brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange.

PIK journal special issue: "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems"

Selected contributions to the Technical Discussion can be included in a special issue on "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" in the Externer Link wird im neuem Fenster geöffnet"Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation" (PIK) journal on applications of communication systems (Volume 31, Number 1, March 2008).

See our PIK page for details.

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