Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8-9, 2008, Milano, Italy“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” advised Albert Einstein. In recent years, the research communities in Computer Science, Engineering, and other disciplines have taken this message to heart, and a relatively new field of “biologically-inspired computing” has been born. Inspiration is being drawn from nature, from the behaviors of colonies of ants, of swarms of bees and even the human body. This new paradigm in computing takes many simple autonomous objects or agents and lets them jointly perform a complex task, without having the need for centralized control. In this paradigm, these simple objects interact locally with their environment using simple rules. Applications include optimization algorithms, communications networks, scheduling and decision making, supply-chain management, and robotics, to name just a few. There are many disciplines involved in making such systems work: from artificial intelligence to energy aware systems. Often these disciplines have their own field of focus, have their own conferences, or only deal with specialized s- problems (e.g. swarm intelligence, biologically inspired computation, sensor networks). The Second IFIP Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing aims to bridge this separation of the scientific community and bring together researchers in the fields of Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing and related areas. We are very pleased to have two very important keynote presentations: Swarm Robotics: The Coordination of Robots via Swarm Intelligence Principles by Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), of which an abstract is included in this volume. |
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| Title | Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8-9, 2008, Milano, Italy Volume 268 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Volume 268 of International Federation for Information Processing, International Federation for Information Processing Volume 19 of Springer series in optical sciences, ISSN 0342-4111 |
| Author | George A. Agoston |
| Editors | Michael Gerard Hinchey, Mike Hinchey, D. L. Mac Adam, Anastasia Pagnoni, Franz J. Rammig, Hartmut Schmeck |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 1979 |
| ISBN | 038709654X, 9780387096544 |
| Length | 137 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General Computers / Computer Science Computers / Information Technology Computers / Machine Theory Computers / Programming / General Computers / User Interfaces Science / Life Sciences / General |
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