Poster by Julia Schaumeier, Jeremy Pitt and Giacomo Cabri presented at the 2nd Awareness Workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-awareness in Autonomic Systems @ SASO 2012, Lyon, France
NGNlab - The Deployment of an Open-Source InfrastructureSebastian Schumann
NGNlab is an open-source next generation network infrastructure deployed at the Slovak University of Technology that provides communication services using only free and open-source software. It includes a complete SIP-based infrastructure with services like registrar, proxy, conferencing, and integrated voice mail. The infrastructure can function as a small VoIP operator. It also implements an IMS core with presence management and IPTV capabilities. All software used is open-source, including the operating system, virtualization software, SIP server, and IMS/IPTV solutions. The infrastructure provides a platform for research and understanding telecommunications standards in a hands-on environment using customizable open-source software.
The document summarizes the vegetative (autonomic) nervous system. It describes that the system controls organs like respiration, circulation, reproduction and excretion. It is separated into the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The sympathetic system is mainly concerned with trophic functions and increases processes like respiration and cardiac activity. The parasympathetic system has a protective role like pupil constriction and inhibiting cardiac activity. The systems have antagonistic interactions in organs with double innervation.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a single physical machine by presenting each virtual operating system with a virtualized hardware environment. This is achieved through a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor that creates virtual machines which the guest operating systems see as real computer hardware. Virtualization provides benefits like increased hardware utilization, flexibility, and portability. It allows organizations to reduce costs by consolidating servers and improving resource use.
Cloud computing allows users to access computing resources like servers, storage, databases, networking, software and more over the internet. It provides scalability, reliability and cost savings. There are three main types of cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud brokers help manage access to cloud services and provide additional security, management and flexibility by aggregating services across multiple cloud platforms.
Platform virtualization allows you to create virtual machines that behave like physical computers, enabling you to install multiple operating systems and programs on a single machine at once. It uses hypervisor software to emulate hardware and allocate resources to guest systems, while the actual hardware resources belong to the host system. Popular virtualization platforms include Xen, Microsoft Virtual PC, Qemu, VirtualBox, and VMWare, and virtualization provides benefits like safe testing of new software and running multiple systems simultaneously on a single server.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It has three service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS provides basic computing resources, PaaS provides platforms to build applications, and SaaS provides complete applications users can access. Popular cloud platforms include Amazon EC2 for IaaS and Google App Engine for PaaS. Cloud computing offers advantages like scalability, cost savings and device independence.
Cloud computing involves delivering computing services over the Internet. Instead of running programs locally, users access software and storage that resides on remote servers in the "cloud." The concept originated in the 1950s but Amazon launched the first major public cloud in 2006. Cloud computing has three main components - clients that access the cloud, distributed servers that host applications and data, and data centers that house these servers. There are different types of clients, deployment models for clouds, service models, and cloud computing enables scalability, reliability, and efficiency for applications accessed over the Internet like email, social media, and search engines.
1. The document describes AMBER, a system that automatically learns gazetteers from the deep web by analyzing web pages and extracting common terms and locations.
2. AMBER identifies data areas and records on pages, aligns attributes, and learns terms with confidence values that can be added to a gazetteer.
3. An evaluation on real estate and used car domains showed AMBER could extract attributes like price, location, and bedrooms with over 98% precision and recall.
NGNlab - The Deployment of an Open-Source InfrastructureSebastian Schumann
NGNlab is an open-source next generation network infrastructure deployed at the Slovak University of Technology that provides communication services using only free and open-source software. It includes a complete SIP-based infrastructure with services like registrar, proxy, conferencing, and integrated voice mail. The infrastructure can function as a small VoIP operator. It also implements an IMS core with presence management and IPTV capabilities. All software used is open-source, including the operating system, virtualization software, SIP server, and IMS/IPTV solutions. The infrastructure provides a platform for research and understanding telecommunications standards in a hands-on environment using customizable open-source software.
The document summarizes the vegetative (autonomic) nervous system. It describes that the system controls organs like respiration, circulation, reproduction and excretion. It is separated into the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The sympathetic system is mainly concerned with trophic functions and increases processes like respiration and cardiac activity. The parasympathetic system has a protective role like pupil constriction and inhibiting cardiac activity. The systems have antagonistic interactions in organs with double innervation.
Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a single physical machine by presenting each virtual operating system with a virtualized hardware environment. This is achieved through a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor that creates virtual machines which the guest operating systems see as real computer hardware. Virtualization provides benefits like increased hardware utilization, flexibility, and portability. It allows organizations to reduce costs by consolidating servers and improving resource use.
Cloud computing allows users to access computing resources like servers, storage, databases, networking, software and more over the internet. It provides scalability, reliability and cost savings. There are three main types of cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud brokers help manage access to cloud services and provide additional security, management and flexibility by aggregating services across multiple cloud platforms.
Platform virtualization allows you to create virtual machines that behave like physical computers, enabling you to install multiple operating systems and programs on a single machine at once. It uses hypervisor software to emulate hardware and allocate resources to guest systems, while the actual hardware resources belong to the host system. Popular virtualization platforms include Xen, Microsoft Virtual PC, Qemu, VirtualBox, and VMWare, and virtualization provides benefits like safe testing of new software and running multiple systems simultaneously on a single server.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It has three service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS provides basic computing resources, PaaS provides platforms to build applications, and SaaS provides complete applications users can access. Popular cloud platforms include Amazon EC2 for IaaS and Google App Engine for PaaS. Cloud computing offers advantages like scalability, cost savings and device independence.
Cloud computing involves delivering computing services over the Internet. Instead of running programs locally, users access software and storage that resides on remote servers in the "cloud." The concept originated in the 1950s but Amazon launched the first major public cloud in 2006. Cloud computing has three main components - clients that access the cloud, distributed servers that host applications and data, and data centers that house these servers. There are different types of clients, deployment models for clouds, service models, and cloud computing enables scalability, reliability, and efficiency for applications accessed over the Internet like email, social media, and search engines.
1. The document describes AMBER, a system that automatically learns gazetteers from the deep web by analyzing web pages and extracting common terms and locations.
2. AMBER identifies data areas and records on pages, aligns attributes, and learns terms with confidence values that can be added to a gazetteer.
3. An evaluation on real estate and used car domains showed AMBER could extract attributes like price, location, and bedrooms with over 98% precision and recall.
The document discusses a 20-year plan to improve public transportation in a major city. Over the next 20 years, the plan aims to [1] expand bus and rail routes to better connect all areas of the city, [2] upgrade existing infrastructure to modernize the system, and [3] increase funding to improve accessibility and reliability for riders. The goal is to provide residents with greater transportation options to access jobs, services, and recreational activities throughout the city.
(E book) business plan - writing an effectiveAvinaba Ghosh
The document discusses the entrepreneurial spirit exhibited by citizens attacking the problem of extremism. It describes how ordinary citizens have come together in creative ways to counter extremist narratives through arts, media campaigns, and community building initiatives. These grassroots efforts led by everyday people aim to promote tolerance and positive social values.
The document discusses the entrepreneurial spirit of citizens attacking problems with creative solutions. It describes an attack on the city's problems by entrepreneurs with new companies providing alternative transportation and addressing other issues. The entrepreneurs are working hard with new ideas and companies to improve their city.
"Work like the Network" for the Social Business Summit 2010Lane Becker
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
This document appears to be a presentation on data visualization and information graphics. It contains several graphs and charts without labels that show comparisons of data across different variables. There are graphs showing proportions of students from different high school backgrounds and their outcomes in university, as well as graphs comparing grade averages and graduation rates across different degree programs. The presentation also includes blank topic sections that were likely filled in during the live presentation.
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
The New Customer Experience Landscape, CANUX 09Lane Becker
The document discusses how organizations are now aware that their customers interact online but most do not know how to respond. It lists key areas that are impacted including customer service, product development, marketing, business development, and advertising. The document concludes that while the customer experience has changed, most organizations do not have a strategy to address this new reality.
The document lists the competitive career details of Japanese baseball player Shigeo Nagashima from 1960 to 1975. It notes that he played for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team throughout his career, winning several Japan Series championships and batting titles. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1980.
1) The document discusses numerical simulations of dielectrophoresis, which is the movement of polarizable particles in a non-uniform electric field. Various simulation strategies are explored, including superpositioned fields and different electrode geometries.
2) Simulation results show that a geometry with negative dielectrophoresis in the cell and bottom achieved the highest trapping efficiency of particles. Additional simulations explored the interactive dielectrophoretic forces between multiple particles forming "pearl chains".
3) The work was a collaboration between researchers at KTH Mekanik who contributed to various aspects of the modeling and simulation of dielectrophoresis and particle trapping.
This document discusses various social media and collaboration tools that can be used to address HR issues, including knowledge sharing and co-creation. It lists tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, MindMeister, Google Docs, Yammer, wikis, blogs, and internal communication platforms. Specific capabilities are identified for each tool such as sharing photos, videos, documents, microblogging, and facilitating discussions, communities, and crowdsourcing.
CES Ltd is a recruitment firm founded in 2010 by Nick Peligno, a veteran of the industry with over 25 years of experience. The firm specializes in executive search and recruitment for hard-to-fill roles, particularly in financial services, broking, underwriting, and insurance. In 2012, CES successfully completed searches for positions such as a Senior Insurance Product Manager, CFO for a reinsurance company, and Marine Underwriter. Current searches include roles like a Sales Director for Affinity Partnerships and a Finance Leader for EMEA at a human capital consultancy.
Primitives And Design Patterns for Top-Down SOA ImplementationsMichael zur Muehlen
Presentation given at the SOA Symposium 2009, Government and Industry Issues and Solutions. This presentation focuses on the development of a BPMN styleguide for the Department of Defense.
McDonald's Options are Trading Rich - Super Sized VolatilityRYAN RENICKER
Actionable trade ideas for stock market investors and traders seeking alpha by overlaying their portfolios with options, other derivatives, ETFs, and disciplined and applied Game Theory for hedge fund managers and other active fund managers worldwide. Ryan Renicker, CFA
WPP, Omnicom Group, Publicis Groupe, and Interpublic Group are the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue. WPP is number one with $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue. Omnicom Group is number two with $11.72 billion. Publicis Groupe is number three with $6.29 billion. Interpublic Group is number four with $6.03 billion. The summary provides an overview of the primary holdings and worldwide revenue of each of the top four agency companies.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue: WPP, Omnicom Group, Publicis Groupe, and Interpublic Group of Companies. It provides details on each company's worldwide and US revenue, headquarters, employees, market capitalization, and their major agency brands and holdings with associated revenue where available. The agencies are grouped by their parent company and discipline (e.g. advertising, PR, digital).
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document discusses various aspects of using Twitter, including how to sign up, build a profile, find accounts to follow, post tweets, and interact with other users. It provides tips on growing one's following by following others, engaging with relevant content, and using appropriate hashtags. Basic analytics on following and follower counts are also covered. The document concludes by recommending the reader to focus on quality over quantity and not become obsessed with social media.
Robots working in swarms need to be self-aware to adapt their behavior based on task performance and collective behavior emerges. Self-aware computing systems could help manage distributed energy production and consumption in smart grids. Data and services could manage themselves in an "ecosystem" through decentralized algorithms. Human cognitive processes like inference could help systems manage internet content by acquiring new content and filtering existing content. Self-aware electric vehicles could communicate to improve reliability, adaptability, and predictability through cooperation. Science clouds use self-aware computing to manage distributed notebooks, servers and virtual machines.
This document discusses the problems of safety and ethics in autonomous systems like robots. Ensuring safe behavior is difficult when robots operate in unpredictable human environments, and they pose ethical challenges if capable of harming humans, inducing emotional responses, appearing intelligent without being so, or causing harm without a responsible party. The author proposes that internal models allowing robots to predict action consequences and check them against safety and ethical rules could enable truly safe and ethical autonomous robots. Self-awareness through internal modeling may be needed to guarantee safety for robots and other autonomous systems working in unknown environments.
The document discusses a 20-year plan to improve public transportation in a major city. Over the next 20 years, the plan aims to [1] expand bus and rail routes to better connect all areas of the city, [2] upgrade existing infrastructure to modernize the system, and [3] increase funding to improve accessibility and reliability for riders. The goal is to provide residents with greater transportation options to access jobs, services, and recreational activities throughout the city.
(E book) business plan - writing an effectiveAvinaba Ghosh
The document discusses the entrepreneurial spirit exhibited by citizens attacking the problem of extremism. It describes how ordinary citizens have come together in creative ways to counter extremist narratives through arts, media campaigns, and community building initiatives. These grassroots efforts led by everyday people aim to promote tolerance and positive social values.
The document discusses the entrepreneurial spirit of citizens attacking problems with creative solutions. It describes an attack on the city's problems by entrepreneurs with new companies providing alternative transportation and addressing other issues. The entrepreneurs are working hard with new ideas and companies to improve their city.
"Work like the Network" for the Social Business Summit 2010Lane Becker
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
This document appears to be a presentation on data visualization and information graphics. It contains several graphs and charts without labels that show comparisons of data across different variables. There are graphs showing proportions of students from different high school backgrounds and their outcomes in university, as well as graphs comparing grade averages and graduation rates across different degree programs. The presentation also includes blank topic sections that were likely filled in during the live presentation.
Subtitle: Six Ways Organizations are Fundamentally Reorganizing Since the Advent of the Internet
Businesses can only see explosive success in the networked economy if they can retool their structures, their cultures, and their base philosophies to be more like the Internet itself. The way people interact, communicate, and make decisions needs to become looser, edge-based, decentralized, open, highly interconnected, and transparent — just to name a few.
In this talk, we’ll range around between the lofty and the practical, covering the broad changes business are experiencing in this new environment, complete with showing examples of how companies have done this and the kinds of success that can follow.
The New Customer Experience Landscape, CANUX 09Lane Becker
The document discusses how organizations are now aware that their customers interact online but most do not know how to respond. It lists key areas that are impacted including customer service, product development, marketing, business development, and advertising. The document concludes that while the customer experience has changed, most organizations do not have a strategy to address this new reality.
The document lists the competitive career details of Japanese baseball player Shigeo Nagashima from 1960 to 1975. It notes that he played for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team throughout his career, winning several Japan Series championships and batting titles. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1980.
1) The document discusses numerical simulations of dielectrophoresis, which is the movement of polarizable particles in a non-uniform electric field. Various simulation strategies are explored, including superpositioned fields and different electrode geometries.
2) Simulation results show that a geometry with negative dielectrophoresis in the cell and bottom achieved the highest trapping efficiency of particles. Additional simulations explored the interactive dielectrophoretic forces between multiple particles forming "pearl chains".
3) The work was a collaboration between researchers at KTH Mekanik who contributed to various aspects of the modeling and simulation of dielectrophoresis and particle trapping.
This document discusses various social media and collaboration tools that can be used to address HR issues, including knowledge sharing and co-creation. It lists tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, MindMeister, Google Docs, Yammer, wikis, blogs, and internal communication platforms. Specific capabilities are identified for each tool such as sharing photos, videos, documents, microblogging, and facilitating discussions, communities, and crowdsourcing.
CES Ltd is a recruitment firm founded in 2010 by Nick Peligno, a veteran of the industry with over 25 years of experience. The firm specializes in executive search and recruitment for hard-to-fill roles, particularly in financial services, broking, underwriting, and insurance. In 2012, CES successfully completed searches for positions such as a Senior Insurance Product Manager, CFO for a reinsurance company, and Marine Underwriter. Current searches include roles like a Sales Director for Affinity Partnerships and a Finance Leader for EMEA at a human capital consultancy.
Primitives And Design Patterns for Top-Down SOA ImplementationsMichael zur Muehlen
Presentation given at the SOA Symposium 2009, Government and Industry Issues and Solutions. This presentation focuses on the development of a BPMN styleguide for the Department of Defense.
McDonald's Options are Trading Rich - Super Sized VolatilityRYAN RENICKER
Actionable trade ideas for stock market investors and traders seeking alpha by overlaying their portfolios with options, other derivatives, ETFs, and disciplined and applied Game Theory for hedge fund managers and other active fund managers worldwide. Ryan Renicker, CFA
WPP, Omnicom Group, Publicis Groupe, and Interpublic Group are the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue. WPP is number one with $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue. Omnicom Group is number two with $11.72 billion. Publicis Groupe is number three with $6.29 billion. Interpublic Group is number four with $6.03 billion. The summary provides an overview of the primary holdings and worldwide revenue of each of the top four agency companies.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue: WPP, Omnicom Group, Publicis Groupe, and Interpublic Group of Companies. It provides details on each company's worldwide and US revenue, headquarters, employees, market capitalization, and their major agency brands and holdings with associated revenue where available. The agencies are grouped by their parent company and discipline (e.g. advertising, PR, digital).
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document summarizes the primary holdings of the world's top four agency companies by 2009 worldwide revenue:
1) WPP had $13.6 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include Grey Group and other marketing services agencies.
2) Omnicom Group had $11.72 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include specialty communications agencies and traditional media advertising.
3) Publicis Groupe had $6.29 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings are led by its media agency Starcom Mediavest Group.
4) Interpublic Group had $6.03 billion in worldwide revenue and holdings include advertising and media agencies such as Lowe & Partners.
The document discusses various aspects of using Twitter, including how to sign up, build a profile, find accounts to follow, post tweets, and interact with other users. It provides tips on growing one's following by following others, engaging with relevant content, and using appropriate hashtags. Basic analytics on following and follower counts are also covered. The document concludes by recommending the reader to focus on quality over quantity and not become obsessed with social media.
Robots working in swarms need to be self-aware to adapt their behavior based on task performance and collective behavior emerges. Self-aware computing systems could help manage distributed energy production and consumption in smart grids. Data and services could manage themselves in an "ecosystem" through decentralized algorithms. Human cognitive processes like inference could help systems manage internet content by acquiring new content and filtering existing content. Self-aware electric vehicles could communicate to improve reliability, adaptability, and predictability through cooperation. Science clouds use self-aware computing to manage distributed notebooks, servers and virtual machines.
This document discusses the problems of safety and ethics in autonomous systems like robots. Ensuring safe behavior is difficult when robots operate in unpredictable human environments, and they pose ethical challenges if capable of harming humans, inducing emotional responses, appearing intelligent without being so, or causing harm without a responsible party. The author proposes that internal models allowing robots to predict action consequences and check them against safety and ethical rules could enable truly safe and ethical autonomous robots. Self-awareness through internal modeling may be needed to guarantee safety for robots and other autonomous systems working in unknown environments.
This document discusses design patterns for autonomic systems. It begins by explaining what design patterns are and how they allow common solutions to recurring problems to be reused, saving time. It then discusses how patterns are described and can be composed to solve different problems. The document outlines several bio-inspired design patterns for autonomic computing systems, including spreading, aggregation, evaporation, and repulsion. It concludes by discussing a taxonomy for classifying patterns according to the component and ensemble levels in an autonomic system.
This document provides an introduction to modeling and analyzing autonomic systems. It discusses modeling autonomic systems using the SOTA/GEM framework for requirements specification and the SCEL modeling language. It then presents a case study of modeling a swarm of garbage collecting robots. Key steps include modeling goals and requirements, selecting adaptation patterns, modeling the robot behavior and interactions in SCEL, and validating requirements through quantitative analysis using techniques like CTMC and ODE models. The document outlines the iterative design time and runtime engineering process for autonomic systems using these techniques.
This document discusses morphogenetic engineering, which aims to design decentralized systems capable of developing elaborate morphologies without central planning. It covers three main topics:
1) Engineering and control of self-organization, which involves fostering and guiding complex systems through their elements.
2) Morphogenetic engineering, which explores artificial design of systems that can develop architectures like those seen in biology, with heterogeneous and hierarchical structures emerging from self-organization.
3) Embryomorphic engineering, which takes inspiration from biological morphogenesis and development, aiming to design multi-agent models that can undergo evolution and development like living organisms. The goal is to better understand novelty in evolution by studying emergence at the microscopic, agent level.
This document provides an introduction to complex systems and agent-based modeling. It discusses what complex systems are, including examples ranging from simple systems of a few agents to more sophisticated systems involving many agents. Complex systems are characterized as having emergent behaviors that arise from the interactions of the agents following simple rules, without any centralized control. The document also provides examples of complex systems in nature, such as pattern formation, neural networks, swarm intelligence in insect colonies, collective motion of flocking and schooling, and social biological systems.
The document discusses autonomic multi-agent systems and self-awareness. It covers:
1) The objectives of understanding fundamental properties of autonomic systems and how agents can use environmental awareness for self-organization.
2) An overview of multi-agent systems, autonomic systems, and representative approaches like dynamic norm-governed systems.
3) How awareness can enable self-healing through maintaining congruence between rules and system state.
This document discusses common features of complex systems and networks. It notes that complex systems generally have a large number of elements that follow individual behavior rules and interact locally. The systems exhibit node and link diversity and dynamics. They can display hierarchy across different levels and heterogeneity. Complex networks form the backbone of complex systems. Network structure influences function and vice versa. Three key metrics to characterize networks are described - average path length, degree distribution, and clustering coefficient. Different types of networks, including random, regular, small-world and scale-free are also discussed.
This document discusses self-awareness in psychology and proposes a framework for computational self-awareness. It defines different types of self-awareness, such as implicit/explicit and private/public. It also outlines levels of self-awareness ranging from stimulus awareness to meta-self-awareness. Finally, it proposes applying these concepts to computing by defining private and public computational self-awareness and levels that could emerge from interactions between components.
The document provides an outline for a presentation on self-awareness in autonomic systems. It discusses introductory examples of robot swarms, science clouds, and cooperative electric vehicles. It then motivates the need for awareness in complex distributed systems like communication and power networks. Existing research projects exploring self-awareness concepts are summarized, including ASCENS, CoCoRo, EPiCS, RECOGNITION, SAPERE, and SYMBRION. Nature-inspired examples of self-aware behaviors in flocking, ant foraging, quorum sensing, chemotaxis, morphogenesis, and gossiping are presented. Finally, awareness properties in biological systems like the immune system are discussed.
This document summarizes several research projects related to autonomic and self-aware systems. It discusses proprioceptive systems like EPiCS which aim to develop self-aware and self-expressive computing systems. It also discusses swarm robotics projects like SYMBRION that develop robotic swarms capable of self-organization. Data management projects like SAPERE and RECOGNITION seek to develop self-aware techniques for acquiring and managing large amounts of data and content.
Simulation tools can help understand natural systems and develop self-aware systems. Existing simulators like Repast and The ONE have advantages but lack certain features. The CoSMoS method structures simulation development through domain, platform, and results models to help ensure simulations accurately represent domains. Simulations aid controller design for systems like underwater robots, though the "reality gap" between simulation and reality requires attention.
The document discusses awareness in autonomous systems. It covers general properties of self-awareness like perception and collectivity. It also discusses the short-term impacts of self-awareness like safety and sustainability and long-term open issues. Key aspects of self-awareness are levels ranging from ecological to conceptual awareness. Distributed emergence of self-awareness is possible through collective systems though parts exhibit less awareness. Internal models are important for self-aware systems to represent themselves and environments to test possibilities.
This document discusses self-awareness in autonomous systems and provides examples. It defines autonomic systems as self-governing systems that can operate without external direction in complex environments. Examples discussed include robot swarms, science clouds, and cooperative electric vehicles. The motivation for self-awareness in information and communication technology systems is that as systems become more distributed and complex, they require mechanisms to manage and organize themselves. Existing self-aware systems in nature that provide inspiration include flocking behavior in animals and ant foraging behavior through decentralized coordination.
This document discusses robot swarms and swarm robotics. It introduces marXbot, a miniature mobile robot with various sensors that can dock with other robots. It discusses problems with swarm robotics like noise and uncertainty. It then covers using action logics and Markov decision processes to model probabilistic behavior in robot swarms. Finally, it discusses reinforcement learning techniques like hierarchical reinforcement learning and decomposition that can help address challenges of modeling large state spaces.
This document discusses engineering autonomic ensembles through model-based development. It describes modeling autonomic systems using Agamemnon and implementing components using Poem. Reinforcement learning is used to find good completions for partial programs that maximize reward. The Service Component Ensemble Language (SCEL) provides an abstract framework for ensemble programming. A case study of a robot ensemble is used to illustrate modeling the domain and requirements, selecting adaptation patterns, modeling behavior, and analyzing requirements through simulation and sensitivity analysis.
The document discusses using swarms of underwater robots to perform search and rescue tasks. It describes the CoCoRo project which uses collective cognition and swarm intelligence to coordinate groups of simple robots. This allows them to display complex emergent behaviors. Specific challenges of operating underwater like communication and localization are addressed. The document proposes using a relay chain to connect an exploratory swarm of robots to a base station. It provides resources to start simulating and developing algorithms for the swarm and relay chain behaviors.
This document discusses a case study on computational self-awareness in smart camera networks. It provides an overview of the EPiCS project, which aims to develop self-aware and self-expressive systems. Surveillance camera networks are presented as an application domain, along with challenges in distributed multi-camera object tracking. The case study then introduces the concept of self-awareness in smart camera networks and provides prerequisites and objectives for participants to develop new strategies for distributed tracking using a simulation environment over the course of a week.
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LEVELS FIELDS THEMES
Meta-Self-Awareness
tool
• classification according to roles, identity,...
• mental model of others’ models on someone
Artificial Intelligence
• awareness as attribute of intelligent agents
tool Properties
• Adaptation
‣ hostile/changing environment
Predictive Self-Awareness • self-awareness in machine-consciousness • Evolution and Emergence
• model inner states of others, future environment ‣ adaptive/evolving systems
Computer Organisation • Self-*
Persistent Self-Awareness
• reflection on self extended over time tool • automatic hardware re-configuration
• multi-core processors
tool ‣ * = expression, organisation, awareness,...
• Learning and Behaviour
‣ based on knowledge, related to cognition
• Distribution and Collectives
‣ collaborating autonomous components
Generic Self-Awareness Interactive Robotics • System Properties
• construct medal model of self on basis of private/ • perception of environment ‣ fault tolerance, robustness, autonomy,...
public self-awareness • actor modelling
Development
Private Self-Awareness Networks & Infrastructure • Information and Modelling
• reflection about internal state (emotion, goals,...) • load balancing and traffic shaping ‣ internal states, model at runtime
• critical infrastructure protection • Techniques and Systems
‣ bio-inspired computing, multi-agent systems,
Public Self-Awareness sensor networks,...
• awareness of appearance, effects of own actions Situation Recognition
• data analytics Support
Self-Consciousness • event semantics • Services and Systems
‣ adaptive middleware and services
• analyse self over time, differentiate from others
Swarm Robotics
Consciousness • controlled emergence Interdisciplinarity
• stigmergy • Socially Inspired
• aware of position/movement relative to environment ‣ psychology, social phenomena,...
• relate past/future events to present