Self-Organizing Systems [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop, IWSOS 2007, The Lake District, UK, September 11-13, 2007. Proceedings / edited by David Hutchison, Randy H. Katz.

Keynote Speakers -- Engineering Self-Organizing Systems -- Infrastructure and Self-organization in Postmodern Internet Architecture -- Ad Hoc Routing for Wireless/Sensor Networks -- Mercator: Self-organizing Geographic Connectivity Maps for Scalable Ad-Hoc Routing -- A New Approach to Adaptive Multi-routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Network -- The Development of a Wireless Sensor Network Sensing Node Utilising Adaptive Self-diagnostics -- Efficient and Resilient Overlay Topologies over Ad Hoc Networks -- Peer-to-Peer Networking -- A Generic, Self-organizing, and Distributed Bootstrap Service for Peer-to-Peer Networks -- CSP, Cooperative Service Provisioning Using Peer-to-Peer Principles -- Network Topology and Architecture -- Generic Emergent Overlays in Arbitrary Peer Identifier Spaces -- A Common Architecture for Cross Layer and Network Context Awareness -- Network Topology Reconfiguration Against Targeted and Random Attack -- Adaptive and Self-organizing Networks -- A Self-organizing Control Plane for Failure Management in Transparent Optical Networks -- A Self-organizing Approach to Tuple Distribution in Large-Scale Tuple-Space Systems -- Autonomous Optimization of Next Generation Networks -- Multicast and Mobility Protocols -- Bandwidth-Satisfied Multicast Services in Large-Scale MANETs -- Localising Multicast Using Application Predicates -- Miscellaneous Topics -- Cost Aware Adaptive Load Sharing -- Self-configuration in MANETs: Different Perspectives -- Knowledge-Based Reasoning Through Stigmergic Linking -- Short Papers -- Dynamic Ontology Mapping for Interacting Autonomous Systems -- Trade-Off Between Performance and Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Automated Trust Negotiation in Autonomic Environments -- Collaborative Anomaly-Based Attack Detection -- Modeling and Management of Service Level Agreements for Digital Video Broadcasting(DVB) Services.

The2ndInternationalWorkshoponSelf-OrganizingSystems(IWSOS2007)was hosted by Lancaster University and held in the beautiful English Lake District. Lancaster University is fortunate to have on its doorstep some of the ?nest scenery in the United Kingdom, and research groups often take the opportunity to bene?t from this natural advantage. For IWSOS 2007 we chose the quiet North Lakes and speci?cally the Lodore Falls Hotel, which is situated in the Borrowdale valley, just south of Derwent Water and the town of Keswick. Itwasa?ttinglocationforthesecondworkshopintheseriesonself-organizing systems that began last autumn in Passau, Germany. Futurenetworkedsystemswill,tosomedegree,needtobeself-organizing.For example, they will be deployed in remote and hostile environments, where m- ual setup and con?guration may be undesirable or impossible. Some networks, suchasmobile ad-hocnetworks,willbe spontaneouslydeployed,havea dynamic population, and may be short-lived. The time it takes traditional management activities to converge, where people are in the control loop, is unsuitably long for these kinds of network. Furthermore, the potential scale and complexity of future networked systems, including the future Internet, will make some form of self-organization highly desirable and perhaps a necessity. The complexity of these networked systems comes from the heterogeneity of devices, com- nication technologies and protocols, and the stringent user requirements (e.g., resilience) that they will need to support.