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Designing Self-Organising Emergent Systems based on Information Flows and Feedback-loops
Cambridge, Massachussets July 09-July 11
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Tom De Wolf, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Tom Holvoet, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
For self-organising emergent solutions, there is no support to explicitly design system-wide information flows and feedback loops in those flows. This is problematic because the problem-solving power mainly resides in coordination between agents which needs information exchange. The flows of inherently decentralised information are essential for emergence. Feedback loops are a prerequisite for selforganisation. The design should explicitly focus on information flows. Otherwise, engineers are overwhelmed by details of decentralised coordinationmechanisms such as gradient fields without first looking at the bigger coordination picture. We introduce "Information Flow" as abstraction to design a solution independently of the coordination mechanism details by explicitly identifying information flows and designing feedback-loops. UML 2 activity diagrams are the notation. An automated guided vehicle transportation system shows the usefulness and feasibility.
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Tom De Wolf, Tom Holvoet, "Designing Self-Organising Emergent Systems based on Information Flows and Feedback-loops," saso, pp.295-298, First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), 2007
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