Over My Head Ch. 92

The Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamareddine. The distribution of optimal strategies on a Pareto front, however, suggests that there may be a ‘best-fit’ optimal strategy. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for the design of future distributed applications, the likely influence of other factors and of extreme parameter values on the ability of the system to self-organize and the potential improvements to our framework. We measure the ability of a selected set of local rules to foster self-organization of what is originally a random graph into a structured network. This article refines the process of selection of a suitable video content adaptation strategy, the former to return best or fittest solutions that have evolved over many generations and the latter to evaluate and rank each generation's solutions against a set of objectives without the need to assign weights to each one. In order to make the refined process dynamic, it pursues its implementation using Self-Organising Neural Networks. We demonstrate that in this context, an overlay rewiring process based purely on local decisions and interactions can result in efficient load-balancing without central planning. We show that a ‘secondary’ self-organization process ensues, whereby nodes spontaneously cluster according to their implicit objective.ArrayThe Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue in order to bring to a wider readership. Professor Kamareddine is an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal and is based