Organic Computing

Introduction: Organic Computing.- The Organic Future of Information Technology.- Systems Engineering for Organic Computing: The Challenge of Shared Design and Control between OC Systems and their Human Engineers.- Controlled Emergence and Self-Organization.- Organic Computing and Complex Dynamical Systems - Conceptual Foundations and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.- Evolutionary Design of Emergent Behavior.- Genesis of Organic Computing Systems: Coupling Evolution and Learning.- Organically Grown Architectures: Creating Decentralized, Autonomous Systems by Embryomorphic Engineering.- Artificial Development.- Self-adaptive Worker-Helper Systems with Self-Organized Task Allocation.- Concepts for Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Networked Embedded Systems.- An Artificial Hormone System for Self-Organizing Real-Time Task Allocation in Organic Middleware.- Bio-Inspired Networking - Self-Organizing Networked Embedded Systems.- Self-organized Evaluation of Dynamic Hand Gestures for Sign Language Recognition.- Subspace Image Representation for Facial Expression Analysis and Face Recognition and its Relation to the Human Visual System.