Abstract
A key requirement for the realization of moderndistributed systems is their ability to dynamically adapt theirbehavior to changing environmental conditions to preserve theiroperation even in the presence of uncertain changes. In orderto accomplish this, the different parts of such a self-organizingsystem have to be coordinated to achieve meaningful adaptations. To avoid single point of failures, decentralized control is a keyelement for the realization of robust and scalable self-adaptation. However, self-organizing systems may, under certain conditions, show unwanted behavior like, e.g. a decrease of performanceand/or starvation, even when they are apparently well engineered. A promising concept to overcome such dynamical inefficienciesin self-organizing systems is to realize the dynamic exchangeor reconfiguration of the coordination processes responsible forthe self-organizing behavior in terms of a structural adaptation. This paper introduces a decentralized coordination frameworkto realize decentralized control processes for distributed self-organizing systems, that supports the structural exchange (orreconfiguration) of the coordination processes.
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