self-configuring

As they sense and react to their environment, as they become self-assembling, self-configuring, self-healing, and “cognitive,” they more and more resemble living organisms.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

I want to call attention to something else: words such as self-configuring, self-healing, and cognitive are not ones we would have associated with technology in the past.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

In fact, not only will these systems in the future be self-configuring, self-optimizing, and cognitive, they will be self-assembling, self-healing, and self-protecting.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

MANET networks are self-configuring networks of mobile routers and hosts connected wirelessly to form an emergent configuration or topology.

Infrastructure Redundancy, Emergence and Coping with Disasters 2006

MANET networks are self-configuring networks of mobile routers and hosts connected wirelessly to form an emergent configuration or topology.

Archive 2006-09-01 2006

Furthermore, self-configuring, self-healing networks are inherently less expensive to install and maintain as radios and microprocessors become cheaper.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Wireless Mesh Networks: More Scalable, Reliable 2003

The Sputnik AP is self-configuring, secure, and open to hacking -- based on Seth Schoen's Bootable Business Card Linux distro.

Boing Boing: April 13, 2003 - April 19, 2003 Archives 2003

And, because it includes a self-configuring Network Address Translator, your PCs are hidden from the Internet to prevent unauthorized access.

networking - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2002

It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

NPR Topics: News 2011

LifeNet is open source software using the free Wi-Fi spectrum and commodity Wi-Fi protocol for link layer communication and is a self-configuring Linux kernel module.

ACM TechNews 2010