Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium 2016

This book presents the results of the Organic Computing - Doctoral Dissertation Colloqium 2016. Successful participants have been invited to extend their abstracts submitted to the event towards a full book chapter by taking reviews and feedback received at the event in Duisburg into account. Hence, the book also gives an overview of corresponding research activities in the field in Germany for the year 2016. The collection of contributions reflects the diversity of VIII Preface the different aspects of Organic Computing. Furthermore, group discussions during the OC-DDC resulted in a contribution that aggregates the ideas of the participants related to applied machine learning for Organic Computing systems. This is complemented by an article about the term “Organic Computing”. In the following, we outline the contributions contained in this book.