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2 October 2008

• 16:4116:41, 2 October 2008 diff hist 0 TopDown vs BottomUp No edit summary current
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• 16:3816:38, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,447 N TopDown vs BottomUp New page: Kevin Kelly has written an interesting post about the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control. He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up contributions and top-down con...
• 16:3616:36, 2 October 2008 diff hist +51 N Engineering Emergence New page: see engineering of self-organizing systems
• 16:3516:35, 2 October 2008 diff hist +44 ESOS No edit summary
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• 16:3316:33, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,497 N ESOS New page: The '''engineering of self-organizing systems''' (ESOS) is a contradiction in itself: how can you organize something which organizes itself? If we want to build a self-organizing syste...
• 16:3116:31, 2 October 2008 diff hist +31 Stigmergy No edit summary
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• 16:2916:29, 2 October 2008 diff hist +3,355 N Stigmergy New page: thumb|300px|Principle of Stigmergy '''Stigmergy''' is a core principle behind many ant-based systems and the phenomenon of [[Swarm Intelligenc...
• 16:2716:27, 2 October 2008 diff hist +10,025 N AOSE New page: '''Agent Oriented Software Engineering''' (AOSE) is the name for the attempt to construct and engineer new forms of flexible and robust software with Agents and [[Multi-Agent Sys...
• 16:2716:27, 2 October 2008 diff hist +4,614 N ESOA New page: '''Engineering Self-Organizing Applications''' (ESOA) is the attempt to apply the concept of self-organization to engineering, esp. software engineering. Wether this...
• 15:5015:50, 2 October 2008 diff hist +852 Robustness No edit summary
• 15:4515:45, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,244 N Serial vs Parallel New page: :The hardware of the brain is fundamentally parallel, like that :of the Edinburgh machine. And it runs software designed to create :an illusion of serial processing: a serially processin... current
• 15:2615:26, 2 October 2008 diff hist +51 N Category:Systems New page: The category page contains links to various systems
• 15:1815:18, 2 October 2008 diff hist +68 N Category:Evolutionary Principles New page: This category contains some basic principles of evolutionary systems
• 15:1715:17, 2 October 2008 diff hist 0 Complex Adaptive System →Properties
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• 15:1515:15, 2 October 2008 diff hist +80 Main Page No edit summary
• 15:1215:12, 2 October 2008 diff hist +338 N Flexibility New page: '''Flexibility''' is defined as the ability to react to changes in the environment, for example to expand or contract in response to external requirements. It is the opposite of stiffness ...
• 15:1215:12, 2 October 2008 diff hist +373 N Availability New page: '''Availability''' is the probability of a system to be operational when needed. It is associated with the percentage of time that the system is available. High availability is...
• 15:1215:12, 2 October 2008 diff hist +2,249 N Applied System Theory New page: This page contains the basic principles and properties in applied system theory relevant to build distributed and complex applications. Many of the basic principles in applied system the... current
• 15:1115:11, 2 October 2008 diff hist +573 N Failover New page: '''Failover''' means the automatic substitution of a functionally equivalent system component for a failed one: if one ''fails'' the other can take ''over''. The principle describes the tr...
• 15:1115:11, 2 October 2008 diff hist +213 N Recovery New page: '''Recovery''' means the (fast) return to an original state and is often associated with the process of self-healing. It is the basic principle of Recovery-Oriented Computing. [[Cate... current
• 15:1115:11, 2 October 2008 diff hist +253 N Reliability New page: In computer science and engineering, '''reliability''' can be defined as the probability that a system will perform its intended function without failure during a specified period of time...
• 15:1015:10, 2 October 2008 diff hist +101 N Category:Applied Principles New page: This category contains the applied principles of systems and system theory.
• 15:1015:10, 2 October 2008 diff hist +14,160 N Scalability New page: '''Scalability''' means how well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. The degree of scalability determines how much a system can be expanded withou...
• 15:0915:09, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,482 N Replication New page: '''Replication''' in computer science refers to the creation and the use of redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve availability, reliability, [[Fault Tol...
• 15:0915:09, 2 October 2008 diff hist +5,634 N Redundancy New page: '''Redundancy''' is related to duplication and replication and refers in general to the quality or state of being redundant, i.e. there are more components than needed to p...
• 15:0715:07, 2 October 2008 diff hist +471 N Causality Violation New page: Causality means the cause of an event is observed before its effect is observed. '''Causality violation''' means that the cause of an event is observed after its effect is observed. Viola...
• 15:0715:07, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,538 N Race Condition New page: A '''race condition''' can be defined as an anomalous behavior due to unexpected unexpected ordering of events and critical dependence on the relative timing of events. It characterizes ...
• 15:0615:06, 2 October 2008 diff hist +16,052 N Fault Tolerance New page: '''Fault tolerance''' is the ability of a system to continue normal operation despite unexpected hardware or software failure, faults or outages. It is the ability to cope with ... current
• 15:0515:05, 2 October 2008 diff hist +2,596 N Robustness New page: '''Robustness''' in the context of software systems and applications is defined as the degree to which a system or component can still function in the presence of pertubations:...
• 15:0015:00, 2 October 2008 diff hist +5,811 N Genetic Algorithm New page: '''Genetic Algorithms''' (GA) are a class of optimization or search algorithms that imitate the biological process of evolution. They are a particular class of Evolutionary Algorithm...
• 14:5914:59, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,507 N Evolutionary Algorithm New page: '''Evolutionary Algorithm''' (also EA, evolutionary computation, artificial evolution) is a generic term used to indicate any population-based heuristic optimization algorithm that uses...
• 14:5914:59, 2 October 2008 diff hist +64 N Category:Distributed Algorithms New page: This page points to resources concerning Distributed Algorithms.
• 14:5814:58, 2 October 2008 diff hist +425 N Deadlock Detection New page: Distributed '''deadlock detection''' algorithms realize deadlock detection in a distributed system. It is difficult to detect deadlocks in distributed systems, becau...
• 14:5814:58, 2 October 2008 diff hist +456 N Termination Detection New page: Distributed algorithms for '''termination detection''' are unique for distributed systems because the problem of termination detection does...
• 14:5814:58, 2 October 2008 diff hist +389 N Mutual Exclusion Algorithm New page: '''Distributed mutual exclusion''' algorithms realize mutual exclusion in a distributed system. They are used to avoid the concurrent use of un-shareable resources a...
• 14:5714:57, 2 October 2008 diff hist +17,694 N Election Algorithm New page: An election algorithm can be used in a distributed system to select a single coordinator. When the election is terminated, there is only one node that calls itself t...
• 14:5714:57, 2 October 2008 diff hist +2,753 N Phase Algorithm New page: The '''phase algorithm''' is the asynchronous version of the heartbeat algorithm. Each node or process waits until it has received all messages of phase (or round)...
• 14:5614:56, 2 October 2008 diff hist +2,898 N Heart Beat Algorithm New page: A '''heartbeat algorithm''' or '''systolic algorithm''' is executed by a synchronous array of cells ("systolic array") that perform only local computations and communications. They are a s...
• 14:5614:56, 2 October 2008 diff hist +2,354 N Echo Algorithm New page: A typical example for a total algorithm is the echo algorithm, which has been discovered by Ernest J.H. Chang in 1982. == Echo Algorithm == The echo algorithms consis...
• 14:5614:56, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,989 N Total Algorithm New page: A '''total algorithm''' is a distributed algorithm where the participation of all nodes or processes in the network is required before a decision can be taken. It...
• 14:5514:55, 2 October 2008 diff hist +5,765 N Distributed Aggregation Algorithm New page: '''Distributed aggreation algorithms''' belong to a special class of distributed algorithms for mathematical operations. At each node in the distributed system,... current
• 14:5514:55, 2 October 2008 diff hist +1,453 N Distributed GCD Algorithm New page: The '''distributed GCD algorithm''' belongs to a special class of distributed algorithms for mathematical operations. At each node in the distributed system, on...
• 14:5414:54, 2 October 2008 diff hist +18,124 N Distributed Algorithm New page: A '''distributed algorithm''' is an decentralized algorithm that is executed in a distributed system, on more than one machine, node or processor. == Definition == ...