In the growing “Internet of Things” (IoT), more and more everyday objects are equipped with some processing power and networked to other such objects with the goal to orchestrate complex behaviors in interaction with the humans occupying the shared space. Well-hyped examples of such intended behaviors are of course home automation, intelligent traffic coordination, or healthcare support. To create such a complex system of individually active components, some researchers are turning to nature for guidance. There we find many examples of large-scale self-organizing systems comprising simple components (e.g., ants in a colony) within which robust and adaptive goal-oriented system-level behavior emerges (e.g., formation of efficient trail networks to bring food to the nest). But not only do we seek to engineer the desired primary system functions as emergent features of a self-organizing system, we also apply the approach to create the secondary function that all these IoT systems should have in common: Cyber Security. In our talk, we briefly provide an introduction to self-organization and emergence in natural and engineered systems and then outline our vision for swarming cyber security that AXON Ghost Sentinel is working towards.
Sven co-founded AXON Ghost Sentinel, and leads and manages all technology research and product development efforts. He has led and managed basic and applied research efforts for more than a decade, and has more than 20 years of experience in multi-agent systems research and self-organizing system technology development. Sven has pioneered technology in fields ranging from document discovery to population prediction to vehicle control to logistics optimization. He has led numerous agent-focused technology efforts, authored over twenty papers on agent-based and complex systems’ theory and application, and has been named inventor on several patent filings. Sven received a Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.