Self-Organizing Systems

We welcome you to the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008) hosted at the University of Vienna, Austria.IWSOSprovidesanannualforumtopresentanddiscussrecentresearch inself-organizationfocusedonnetworksandnetworkedsystems.Researchinse- organizingnetworkedsystemshasadvancedinrecentyears,buttheinvestigation of its potentials and limits still leaves challenging and appealing open research issues for this and subsequent IWSOS workshops. Complexandheterogeneousnetworksmakeself-organizationhighlydesirable. Bene?ts envisioned by self-organization are the inherent robustness and ada- ability to new dynamic tra?c, topology changes, and scaling of networks. In - dition to an increasingly complex Global Internet, a number of domain-speci?c subnetworks bene?t from advances in self-organization, including wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks, e.g., vehi- lar ad-hoc networks. Self-organization in networked systems is often inspired by other domains, such as nature (evolution theory, swarm intelligence), sociology (human cooperation), and economics (game theory). Aspects of controllability, engineering,testing,andmonitoringofself-organizingnetworksremainchalle- ing and are of particular interest to IWSOS. This year, we received 70 full paper and 24 short paper submissions from authors of 33 di?erent countries. This strong interest in the workshop is very encouraging for research in self-organizing systems and allowed us to provide a strong technical program. Based on the recommendations of the Technical Program Committee and external expert reviewers, we accepted 20 full papers from the full paper submissions and invited 9 as short papers. Of the 24 short paper submissions we accepted 4 for presentation for a total of 13 short papers.