Organic Computing

The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC) series is part of the Organic Computing initiativewhich is steered by a Special Interest Group of the German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V.). It provides an environment for PhD students who have their research focus within the broader Organic Computing (OC) community to discuss their PhD project and current trends in the corresponding research areas. This includes, for instance, research in the context of Autonomic Computing, ProActive Computing, Complex Adaptive Systems, Self-Organisation, and related topics. Organic Computing postulates to equip technical systems with 'life-like' properties. Technically, this means to move traditional design-time decisions to runtime and into the responsibility of systems themselves. As a result, systems have a dramatically increased decision freedom that leads to highly autonomous behaviour. The goal of this process is to allow for self-adaptation and self-improvement of system behaviour at runtime. Especially since conditions that occur at runtime can only be anticipated to a certain degree, efficient mechanisms are needed that guide the system's behaviour even in cases of missing knowledge or uncertain environmental status. Consequently, Organic Computing summarises a variety of aspects and techniques that are needed to finally develop such mechanisms. The main goal of the colloquium is to foster excellence in OC-related research by providing feedback and advice that are particularly relevant to the students' studies and career development. Thereby, participants are involved in all stages of the colloquium organisation and the review process to gain experience.