{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,29]],"date-time":"2022-12-29T05:18:53Z","timestamp":1672291133339},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)","issue":"3","content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2006,7]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>This issue of the Operating Systems Review focuses on self-organizing systems; that is, systems whose functionality emerges through the autonomous activities of their components. Self-organization is a powerful paradigm for structuring systems ranging from stand-alone operating systems all the way up to planetary-scale distributed systems. Unlike the previously dominant organizational paradigms, self-organization has the potential to be much more robust because the individual components can autonomously compensate for the failures of other components, to scale to much larger systems because they avoid centralized components that pose bottlenecks, and to provide much better performance because they draw on the resources of a great many components distributed in many different places.This issue of the OSR brings together various papers on the application of the self-organizing design paradigm to various contexts. The vast majority of the papers in this issue relate to peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, a newly emerging class of distributed systems in which self-organization has played a foundational role. Peer-to-peer systems can be characterized by the ability of clients to also function as servers. This ability to shift traditional service functionality from dedicated servers (which provide resources) to a collection of self-organizing nodes that would otherwise serve solely as consumers has enabled a new and broad class of systems with unprecedented performance, robustness, and scale. There has been a huge outpouring of research on self-organizing peer-to-peer systems, whose applications include content delivery, naming systems, messaging, publish-subscribe, data repositories, just to name a few. While a recent panel at SOSP asked the question of whether P2P is \"still useless,\" the overwhelming evidence at the panel was that self-organization techniques are now a standard part of the distributed system designer's tool chest, and have enabled our community, with the aid of PlanetLab, to tackle and address some of the outstanding problems in Internet-scale systems. Planetary scale systems are no longer just a theoretical endeavor; practical self-organizing systems seem to be here to stay.The papers in this issue cover foundations of self-organizing systems, such as elementary building blocks, such as clouds, for managing large scale networks, as well as basic techniques for reconciling quality of service with P2P, and for bridging the gap between centralized and peer-to-peer systems. A primary concern in any self-organizing system is whether the participants have incentives to autonomously follow a protocol, so some of the papers examine mechanism design and incentive-compatibility. Finally, a few of the papers examine self-organization within the context of a single, stand-alone operating system, examining, for instance, self-repair in componentized OSes. I hope you will enjoy reading this issue.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/1151374.1151378","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,10,18]],"date-time":"2006-10-18T22:35:32Z","timestamp":1161210932000},"page":"8-8","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Introduction"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"Emin G\u00fcn","family":"Sirer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cornell University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,7]]},"container-title":["ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/1151374.1151378","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,28]],"date-time":"2022-12-28T21:01:19Z","timestamp":1672261279000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1151374.1151378"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2006,7]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2006,7]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1145\/1151374.1151378"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1151374.1151378","relation":{},"ISSN":["0163-5980"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0163-5980","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2006,7]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2006-07-01","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}