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In this paper, the well-known emergent phenomenon of bunching as appearing in lift group traffic control systems is taken as a technical scenario for validating the generic observer/controller architecture which has been designed as part of an anticipated organic framework – providing generic toolbox mechanisms to observe, analyse, and control emergent behaviour in self-organising systems. In particular, we show how to control and prevent global, collective, unwanted behaviour of groups of lifts, based on observations of the local behaviour of lift cabins.
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Ribock, O., Richter, U., Schmeck, H. (2008). Using Organic Computing to Control Bunching Effects. In: Brinkschulte, U., Ungerer, T., Hochberger, C., Spallek, R.G. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2008. ARCS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78153-0_18
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