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

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.

Analyzes the effect of self-organization applied to computer cloudsFurthers research on principles of self-organization of computing and communication systems inspired by a wealth of self-organizing processes and phenomena in nature and societyPresents a unique analysis of the field, with solutions and case studies

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