Measuring Self-organisation at Runtime - A Quantification Method based on Divergence Measures

Sven Tomforde, Jan Kantert, Bernard Sick

2017

Abstract

The term “self-organisation” typically refers to the ability of large-scale systems consisting of numerous autonomous agents to establish and maintain their structure as a result of local interaction processes. The motivation to develop systems based on the principle of self-organisation is to counter complexity and to improve desired characteristics, such as robustness and context-adaptivity. In order to come up with a fair comparison between different possible solutions, a prerequisite is that the degree of self-organisation is quantifiable. Even though there are some attempts in literature that try to approach such a measure, there is none that is real-world applicable, covers the entire runtime process of a system, and considers agents as blackboxes (i.e. does not require internals about status or strategies). With this paper, we introduce a concept for such a metric that is based on external observations, neglects the internal behaviour and strategies of autonomous entities, and provides a continuous measure that allows for an easy comparibility.

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Tomforde S., Kantert J. and Sick B. (2017). Measuring Self-organisation at Runtime - A Quantification Method based on Divergence Measures . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-219-6, pages 96-106. DOI: 10.5220/0006240400960106


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@conference{icaart17,
author={Sven Tomforde and Jan Kantert and Bernard Sick},
title={Measuring Self-organisation at Runtime - A Quantification Method based on Divergence Measures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={96-106},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006240400960106},
isbn={978-989-758-219-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Measuring Self-organisation at Runtime - A Quantification Method based on Divergence Measures
SN - 978-989-758-219-6
AU - Tomforde S.
AU - Kantert J.
AU - Sick B.
PY - 2017
SP - 96
EP - 106
DO - 10.5220/0006240400960106