Self-organizing systems illustrated

This video shows a physical, self-organizing system. These days a lot of people talk about such kinds of systems for information technology, called self-X systems. Self-X like self-healing, self-organizing, self-stabilizing. The self-X paradigm envisions software systems that come with some inherent dynamics to automatically keep a complex system in a “good” state while it is [...]

activity report

This is a new series of blog posts that has the purpose of keeping me posting once a week and documenting my progress more tightly. Looking back on the past few weeks was rather disappointing in that sense: I am doing little on my research and too much on university management skills. I hope that [...]

ahead of the technology hype cycle

The market research group Gartner just published its most recent “Technology Hype Cycle” analysis on emerging technologies that will determine and shape the future of business and applications. We all know that everyone has to conceive Web2.0 as the next big thing in making money so that’s why it’s in that report I guess. Gartner [...]