Towards a systemic approach to autonomic systems engineering

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 465-472

  Bustard, David ^a   Sterritt, Roy ^a   Taleb Bendiab, A ^b   Laws, Andrew ^b   Randles, Martin ^b   Keenan, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTONOMIC SYSTEM;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 28344445235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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