Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems : Conceptual And Practical Foundations

Babaoglu, Ozalp (EDT); Jelasity, Mark (EDT); Montresor, Alberto (EDT); Fetzer, Christof (EDT); Leonardi, Stefano (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3540260099 / ISBN 13: 9783540260097

Published by Springer, 2005

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• Title: Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems : Conceptual And Practical Foundations
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540260099
• ISBN 13: 9783540260097
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Information systems can be complex due to numerous factors including scale, decentralization, heterogeneity, mobility, dynamism, bugs and failures. Depl- ing, operating and maintaining such systems can be not only very di?cult, but also very costly. A ?urry of recent activity has been directed at this pr- lem, and future information systems are envisioned as self-con?guring, se- organizing,self-managingandself-repairing.Collectively,wecalltheseproperties self- properties. This book is a “spin-o?” of a by-invitation-only Bertinoro workshop on se- propertiesincomplexsystemswhichwasheldinsummer2004inBertinoro,Italy. The Self-star workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from d- ferent disciplines and with di?erent backgrounds to discuss complex information systems.Thethemeoftheworkshopwastoidentifytheconceptualandpractical foundationsformodeling,analyzingandachievingself- propertiesindistributed and networked systems. Partly based on these discussions, we solicited papers from the workshop participants and a set of invitees for this book. We sought original contributions in which authors explicitly take a position concerningrequirements,usefulness,potentialandlimitations oftechnologies for self- properties of complex systems. This position needed to be founded on - search results that were put clearly in context with respect to the position sta- ment. We strongly encouraged visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas, and exploratory results that will help the reader form her or his own opinions on the importance of self- properties in current and future complex information systems.