Paper Info
Title
Engineering Systems Which Generate Emergent Functionalities
Abstract
Complexity of near future and even nowadays applications is exponentially increasing. In order to tackle the design of such complex systems, being able to engineer self-organising systems is a promising approach. This way, the whole system will autonomously changes its behaviour as its parts locally reorganise themselves, always providing an adapted function. This paper proposes to focus on engineering such systems generating emergent functionalities. We will first define two important concepts to take into account in such a context: Emergence and Self-Organisation. Building on these two concepts, we will highlight three main challenges researchers have to cope with: (i)how to control the system at the macro level by only focusing on the design of agents at the micro level, (ii)what kind of tools, models and guides are needed to develop such systems in order to help designers and (iii)how validation of such systems can be achieved? Each of these three challenges will be explained and positioned in regard to the main existing approaches. Our solutions combining emergence and self-organisation will be expounded for each challenge.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8_5
EEMMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
near future,complex system,generate emergent functionalities,self-organising system,macro level,important concept,main challenges researcher,whole system,engineering systems,micro level,emergent functionalities,main existing approach,emergence,multi agent system,engineering,complex systems
Complex system,System of systems engineering,Systems engineering,System of systems,Multi-agent system,Engineering,Macro,Ultra-large-scale systems,Self organisation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5049
0302-9743
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.22
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marie-Pierre Gleizes172882.57
Valérie Camps29017.42
Jean-Pierre Georgé315316.77
Davy Capera41149.93