Opportunities and challenges for implementing highly complex, efficient, and dependable business and control systems have been steadily increasing, driven by the continuous growth in the power, intelligence, adaptiveness and openness of technologies and standards applied in computing, communication and control systems Dynamically changing social and economic situations demand the next generation of systems to be based on adaptive, reusable, and internet and Web enabled technologies and applications Such systems are expected to have the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and decentralized components Such systems are called Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS) The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized System (ISADS) has been the premier events in the past twenty four years to have successfully addressed these challenges. |