Facing the increasing needs for large-scale, robust, adaptive, and distributed/decentralized computing capabilities [1, 5] from such fields as Web intelligence, scientific and social computing, Internet commerce, and pervasive computing, an unconventional bottom-up paradigm, based on the notions of Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) and self-organization in open complex systems, offers new opportunities for developing promising architectures, methods, and technologies. The goal of this paper is

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... o describe the key concepts in this computing paradigm, and furthermore, discuss some of the fundamental principles and mechanisms for obtaining self-organized computing solutions.