Complex Systems and Clouds: A Self-Organization and Self-Management Perspective

by Dan C. Marinescu

Overview

Complex Systems and Clouds: A Self-Organization and Self-Management Perspective provides insights into the intricate world of self-organizing systems. Large scale distributed computer systems have evolved into very complex systems and are at the point where they need to borrow self-adapting organizing concepts from nature.

The book explores complexity in big distributed systems and in the natural processes in physics and chemistry, building a platform for understanding how self-organization in big distributed systems can be achieved. It goes beyond the theoretical description of self-organization to present principles for designing self-organizing systems, and concludes by showing the need for a paradigm shift in the development of large-scale systems from strictly deterministic to non-deterministic and adaptive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128040416
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Series:	Computer Science Reviews and Trends
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dan C. Marinescu was a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana from 1984 till 2001 when he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida. He has held visiting faculty positions at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; Institute of Information Sciences, Beijing ; Scalable Systems Division of Intel Corporation; Deutsche Telecom; and INRIA Rocquancourt in France. In 2012 he was a Fulbright Professor at UTFSM (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria) in Valparaiso, Chile. His research interests cover parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing, scientific computing, and quantum computing and quantum information theory. He has published more than 220 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas and authored three books. In 2007 he delivered the Boole Lecture at University College Cork, the school where George Boole taught from 1849 till his death in 1864. Dan Marinescu was the principal investigator of several grants from the National Science Foundation. In 2008 he was awarded a Earnest T.S. Walton fellowship from the Science Foundation of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Complex Systems

Chapter 2: Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Systems

Chapter 3: Managing Complexity of Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems

Chapter 4: Computer Clouds

Chapter 5: Cloud Self-Organization and Big Data Applications

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As a guide to complex systems and computer clouds, this book provides insights into the intricate world of self-organizing systems