Organic Computing

The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC) series is part of the Organic Computing initiative [4] which is steered by a Special Interest Group of the German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.). It provides an environment for PhD students who have their research focus within the broader Organic Computing (OC) community to discuss their PhD project and current trends in the corresponding research areas. This includes, for instance, research in the context of Autonomic Computing [2], ProActive Computing [5], Complex Adaptive Systems [3], Self-Organisation [1], and related topics. The OC-DDC 2023 as eleventh edition of the colloquium took place at the Leibniz Universität in Hannover, Germany, on June 29/30, 2023. It was organised by the Jürgen Brehm from the Systems Research and Architecture in cooperation with the Department of Food Informatics at the University of Hohenheim and the Intelligent Systems group at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. It continued the series of successful OC-DDC events in Augsburg (2013, 2015, and 2019), Kassel (2014), Duisburg (2016), Bochum (2017), Würzburg (2018), two virtual editions (2020 and 2021) due to the Covid pandemic, and Stuttgart-Hohenheim (2022). Nineteen contributions from all over Germany have been accepted—allowing the authors to present their work at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all participants for the interesting presentations and discussions as well as Jürgen Brehm for the organization of location. This book presents the results of the OC-DDC 2023. Successful participants have been invited to extend their abstracts submitted to the event towards a full book chapter by taking reviews and feedback received at the event at the Leibniz Universität Hannover into account. All nineteen participants prepared a contribution to this book, helped to perform a sophisticated review process, and finally came up with interesting articles summarising their current work in the context of Organic Computing. Hence, the book also gives an overview of corresponding research activities in the field in Germany for the year 2023. The collection of contributions reflects the diversity of the different aspects of Organic Computing. In the following, we outline the contributions contained in this book.