Introduction: Organic Computing -- The Organic Future of Information Technology -- Systems Engineering for Organic Computing: The Challenge of Shared Design and Control between OC Systems and their Human Engineers -- Controlled Emergence and Self-Organization -- Organic Computing and Complex Dynamical Systems – Conceptual Foundations and Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Evolutionary Design of Emergent Behavior -- Genesis of Organic Computing Systems: Coupling Evolution and Learning -- Organically Grown Architectures: Creating Decentralized, Autonomous Systems by Embryomorphic Engineering -- Artificial Development -- Self-adaptive Worker-Helper Systems with Self-Organized Task Allocation -- Concepts for Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Networked Embedded Systems -- An Artificial Hormone System for Self-Organizing Real-Time Task Allocation in Organic Middleware -- Bio-Inspired Networking — Self-Organizing Networked Embedded Systems -- Self-organized Evaluation of Dynamic Hand Gestures for Sign Language Recognition -- Subspace Image Representation for Facial Expression Analysis and Face Recognition and its Relation to the Human Visual System.