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The Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamareddine. 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. Using dynamic addressing and routing techniques, our framework rewrites both source and destination addresses for every replayed packet on-the-fly. Conflicting goals are introduced, in the form of a population of nodes actively seeking to acquire neighbours of a type different from their own, resulting in decreased local homogeneity. Finally, we evaluate the strengths of our framework by mainly examining the open-source IPS Snort-Inline.In this paper, we investigate the global self-aggregation dynamics arising from local decision-based rewiring of an overlay network, used as an abstraction for an autonomic service-oriented architecture. We propose algorithms to partition attacker/victim-emanated packets so that they are subjected to security inspections by the IUT and in addition, we offer packet manipulation operations to shape replayed traces.The Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue in order to bring to a wider readership. 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. Professor Kamareddine is an Associate Editor of