Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 135, Issue , 2005, Pages 18-34

  De Wolf, Tom ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a KU Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

emergence; Keywords; methodology; multi agent systems; self organisation; software engineering; unified process

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY; EMERGENCE; INTERACTING AGENTS; KEYWORD; MACROSCOPIC BEHAVIORS; METHODOLOGY; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANISING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; UNIFIED PROCESS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 46449083425     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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