Relationships to Other Concepts

This chapter will relate our concepts of computational self-awareness and self-expression to other efforts in computer science and engineering under the self-awareness label. Depending on the fields, the term self-awareness may have different meanings and may be more or less defined. Considering mainly disciplines which explicitly cover self-awareness, we present a selection of clusters of research, and their interpretation of the term. The examples range from basic, but efficient, electronic communication systems, through self-awareness in robotics and large IT systems, to more abstract and formal concepts of self-awareness emerging collectively through interaction of simple nodes. While there are many examples of work addressing self-awareness at different levels, there still seems to be a lack of general definitions and frameworks for working with self-awareness and self-expression in a computing context.

Authors and Affiliations

1. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

   Kyrre Glette

2. Aston University, Birmingham, UK

   Peter R. Lewis

3. Studix, Oslo, Norway

   Arjun Chandra

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kyrre Glette .

Editors and Affiliations

1. School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

   Peter R. Lewis

2. Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

   Marco Platzner

3. Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kärnten, Austria

   Bernhard Rinner

4. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

   Jim Tørresen

5. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

   Xin Yao

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