Self-adaptive Approaches -- Elements of Self-adaptive Systems – A Decentralized Architectural Perspective -- Improving Architecture-Based Self-adaptation Using Preemption -- Weaving the Fabric of the Control Loop through Aspects -- Self-organizing Approaches -- Self-organisation for Survival in Complex Computer Architectures -- Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm -- Multi-policy Optimization in Self-organizing Systems -- A Bio-inspired Algorithm for Energy Optimization in a Self-organizing Data Center -- Towards a Pervasive Infrastructure for Chemical-Inspired Self-organising Services -- Hybrid Approaches -- Self-adaptive Architectures for Autonomic Computational Science -- Modelling the Asynchronous Dynamic Evolution of Architectural Types -- A Self-organizing Architecture for Traffic Management -- On the Modeling, Refinement and Integration of Decentralized Agent Coordination -- A Self-organizing Architecture for Pervasive Ecosystems.

This book contains the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Self-Organizing Architectures Workshop (SOAR) in Cambridge, UK, in September 2009. The book includes 9 revised papers, which were selected from 17 submissions of the workshop, as well as 4 invited papers. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to self-organizing architectures, including self adaptive architectures, decentralized architectures, nature-inspired approaches, and learning approaches.