Research Days 2011

The Research Days are an annual event concentrating on the core competence of Lakeside Labs - Self-organizing Networked Systems.  During this workshop organized by Lakeside Labs GmbH in cooperation with the University of Klagenfurt, international experts devote themselves to a special topic in self-organization. 

Applications of Self-Organization in Technology

The concept and theory of complex systems and self-organization has been researched for several decades and yielded many publications. Scientists claim self-organization to be the new paradigm to cope with the emerging complexity of networked applications. However, the claimed paradigm change has not yet shown a very great impact so far. Typical applications which are claimed to implement and build on self-organization are often built by experts from the respective domain such as computer networks, wireless communications, sensor networks, etc. without generality that holds also for other domains. On the other hand, research and development on applications of self-organization have the potential to provide results across the particular domain borders. In order to enable this potential, there is a need to move the application area of self-organizing systems more towards the center of complex systems research. In other words, complex systems researcher need to learn how to apply their results and domain specific researchers need to learn more about the general aspects of self-organization. At the Research Days 2011, a group of international researchers will discuss how this translation between complex systems theory, domain-specific theory, and practical application can be achieved.

The research days have taken place annually since 2008. Notable results from previous Research Days have been research collaborations, several joint papers, organization of conference special sessions, and the conception and submission of joint research projects in the EU FP7 framework.