Toward requirements engineering for self-organizing multi-agent systems

First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 299-302

  Sudeikat, Jan ^a,b   Renz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; ROBUST CONTROL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PRO-ACTIVE AGENTS; SELF-ORGANIZING DYNAMICS; STEER SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37049007666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASO.2007.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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