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J. Branke, P. Goldate, H. Prothmann.
Actuated traffic signal optimisation using evolutionary algorithms.
In Proceedings of the 6th European Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS 2007), 2007.

J. Branke, M. Mnif, C. Müller-Schloer, H. Prothmann, U. Richter, F. Rochner, and H. Schmeck.
Organic Computing – Addressing complexity by controlled self-organization.
In Tiziana Margaria, Anna Philippou, and Bernhard Steffen, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA 2006), pages 200–206, 2006.

J. Branke and H. Schmeck.
Evolutionary Design of Emergent Behavior.
In R. P. Würtz, editor, Organic Computing, pages 123–140. Springer, 2008.

E. Cakar, M. Mnif, C. Müller-Schloer, U. Richter, H. Schmeck.
Towards a quantitative notion of self-organisation.
In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), pages 4222–4229, 2007.

N. Fredivianus, U. Richter, H. Schmeck.
Collaborating and Learning Predators on a Pursuit Scenario.
In M. Hinchey, B. Kleinjohann, L. Kleinjohann, P. Lindsay, F. Rammig, J. Timmis, and M. Wolf, editors, Distributed, Parallel and Biologically Inspired Systems, volume 329 of IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, pages 290–301. Springer, 2010.

N. Fredivianus, H. Prothmann, H.Schmeck.
XCS Revisited: Novel Discovery Component for the Classifier System.
In Kalyanmoy Deb and others, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, pages 289–298, Springer, 2010.

M. Mnif and C. Müller-Schloer.
Quantitative Emergence.
In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Mountain Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems (IEEE SMCals 2006), pages 78–84, 2006.

M. Mnif, U. Richter, J. Branke, H. Schmeck, and C. Müller-Schloer.
Measurement and control of self-organised behaviour in robot swarms.
In Paul Lukowicz, Lothar Thiele, and Gerhard Tröster, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2007), pages 209–223, 2007.

C. Müller-Schloer.
Organic Computing: On the feasibility of controlled emergence.
In A. Orailoglu, P. H. Chou, P. Eles, and A. Jantsch, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2004), pages 2–5. ACM, 2004.

C. Müller-Schloer.
Organic Computing – Systemforschung zwischen Technik Naturwissenschaften.
it Special Issue on Organic Computing, 47:179–181, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005.

C. Müller-Schloer and B. Sick.
Emergence in Organic Computing systems: Discussion of a controversial concept.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2006), pages 1–16. Springer, 2006.

C. Müller-Schloer and B. Sick.
Controlled Emergence and Self-Organization.
In R. P. Würtz, editor, Organic Computing, pages 81–104. Springer, 2008.

C. Müller-Schloer, C. von der Malsburg, and R. P. Würtz.
Aktuelles Schlagwort Organic Computing.
Informatik Spektrum, 27(4):332–336, 2004.

H. Prothmann, F. Rochner, S. Tomforde, J. Branke, C. Müller-Schloer, and H. Schmeck.
Organic Control of Traffic Lights.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2008), volume 5060 of LNCS, pages 219–233. Springer, 2008.
The paper received the "ATC 2008 Best Paper Award".

H. Prothmann and H. Schmeck.
Evolutionary algorithms for traffic signal optimisation: A survey.
Proceedings of mobil.TUM 2009 - International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport, 2009.

H. Prothmann, J. Branke, H. Schmeck, S. Tomforde, F. Rochner, J. Hähner, and C. Müller-Schloer.
Organic traffic light control for urban road networks.
International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 2(3):203–225, 2009.

H. Prothmann, S. Tomforde, J. Branke, J. Hähner, C. Müller-Schloer, H. Schmeck.
Organic Traffic Control.
In C. Müller-Schloer, H. Schmeck, T. Ungerer, editors, Organic Computing – A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems, pages 431–446, Birkhäuser, 2011.

O. Ribock, U. Richter, and H. Schmeck.
Using Organic Computing to Control Bunching Effects.
In U. Brinkschulte and T. Ungerer, Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2008), volume 4934 of LNCS, pages 232–244. Springer, 2008.

U. Richter and M. Mnif.
Learning to Control the Emergent Behaviour of a Multi-agent System.
In Franziska Klügl, Karl Tuyls, and Sandip Sen, Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS 2008 (ALAMAS+ALAg 2008), pages 33–40. 2008.

U. Richter, M. Mnif, J. Branke, C. Müller-Schloer, and H. Schmeck.
Towards a generic observer/controller architecture for Organic Computing.
In C. Hochberger and R. Liskowsky, editors, INFORMATIK 2006 – Informatik für Menschen!, volume P-93 of GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), pages 112–119. Köllen Verlag, 2006.

U. Richter, H. Prothmann, and H. Schmeck.
Improving XCS Performance by Distribution.
In X. Li, M. Zhang, and M. Kirley, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), volume 5361 of LNCS, pages 111–120. Springer, 2008.

F. Rochner and C. Müller-Schloer.
Adaptive decentralized and collaborative control of traffic lights.
In P. Dadam and M. Reichert, editors, INFORMATIK 2004 - Informatik verbindet, volume P-51 of GI-Edition - Lecture, Notes in Informatics (LNI), pages 595–599. Köllen Verlag, 2004.

F. Rochner and C. Müller-Schloer.
Emergence in Technical Systems, it Special Issue on Organic Computing.
it Special Issue on Organic Computing, 47:188–200, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005.

F. Rochner, H. Prothmann, J. Branke, C. Müller-Schloer, and H. Schmeck.
An organic architecture for traffic light controllers.
In C. Hochberger and R. Liskowsky, editors, INFORMATIK 2006 – Informatik für Menschen!, volume P-93 of GI-Edition – Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), pages 120–127. Köllen Verlag, 2006.

H. Schmeck.
Organic Computing – A new vision for distributed embedded systems.
In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2005), pages 201–203. IEEE Computer Society, 2005.

H. Schmeck.
Organic Computing.
Künstliche Intelligenz, pages 68–69, Heft 3/2005.

H. Schmeck.
Optimierungstechniken des Organic Computing in der Verkehrstechnik.
In A. Pfingsten and F. Rammig, editors, Informatik bewegt! Informationstechnik in Verkehr und Logistik, pages 11–38. Fraunhofer-IRB-Verlag, 2007.

H. Schmeck and C. Müller-Schloer.
A Characterization of Key Properties of Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems.
In D. Weyns, S. A. Brueckner, and Y. Demazeau, editors, Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems, International Workshop, EEMMAS 2007, volume 5049 of LNAI, pages 17–38. Springer, 2008.

S. Tomforde, H. Prothmann, F. Rochner, J. Branke, J. Hähner, C. Müller-Schloer, and H. Schmeck.
Decentralised Progressive Signal Systems for Organic Traffic Control.
In S. Brueckner, P. Robertson, U. Bellur, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaption and Self-Organization (SASO 2008), pages 413–422. IEEE, 2008.

S. Tomforde, H. Prothmann, J. Branke, J. Hähner, C. Müller-Schloer, H. Schmeck.
Possibilities and Limitations of Decentralised Traffic Control Systems.
WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pages 3298–3306, IEEE, 2010.

S. Tomforde, H. Prothmann, J. Branke, J. Hähner, M. Mnif, C. Müller-Schloer, U. Richter, H. Schmeck.
Observation and Control of Organic Systems.
In C. Müller-Schloer, H. Schmeck, T. Ungerer, editors, Organic Computing – A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems, pages 325–338, Birkhäuser, 2011.