Self-Organizing Systems [electronic resource] : First International Workshop, IWSOS 2006, and Third International Workshop on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services, EuroNGI 2006, Passau, Germany, September 18-20, 2006 Proceedings / edited by Hermann Meer, James P. G. Sterbenz.

Invited Program -- Making Self-organizing Systems Secure -- Self-organising Networks: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? -- Full Papers -- The Challenges of Merging Two Similar Structured Overlays: A Tale of Two Networks -- Self-protection in P2P Networks: Choosing the Right Neighbourhood -- Modelling the Population Dynamics and the File Availability in a BitTorrent-Like P2P System with Decreasing Peer Arrival Rate -- Combining Virtual and Physical Structures for Self-organized Routing -- Optimizing Locality for Self-organizing Context-Based Systems -- Randomized Self-stabilizing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks -- The Case for Virtualized Wireless Access Networks -- Job Scheduling for Maximal Throughput in Autonomic Computing Systems -- Investigating Global Behavior in Computing Grids -- Using Decentralized Clustering for Task Allocation in Networks with Reconfigurable Helper Units -- Self-tuned Refresh Rate in a Swarm Intelligence Path Management System -- Cross-Layer Approach to Detect Data Packet Droppers in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- On-Demand Distributed Energy-Aware Routing with Limited Route Length -- Automatic Data Locality Optimization Through Self-optimization -- A Bio-inspired Approach for Self-protecting an Organic Middleware with Artificial Antibodies -- Autonomic Management of Edge Servers -- Short Papers -- Ubiquitous Zone Networking Technologies for Multi-hop Based Wireless Communications -- Proposal for Self-organizing Information Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks -- Autonomic Security for Home Networks -- Hovering Data Clouds: A Decentralized and Self-organizing Information System -- Defending Grids Against Intrusions -- ORCA – Towards an Organic Robotic Control Architecture -- Posters -- Active Element Network with P2P Control Plane -- A Monitoring Infrastructure for the Digital on-demand Computing Organism (DodOrg) -- Autonomic Network Management for Wireless Mesh and MANETs.