Co-fields: Towards a unifying approach to the engineering of swarm intelligent systems

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2577, Issue , 2003, Pages 68-81

  Mamei, Marco ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a   Leonardi, Letizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUTONOMOUS COMPONENTS; COMMON MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FORCE FIELDS; COORDINATED BEHAVIOR; ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SWARM SYSTEMS; SWARM-BASED APPROACH;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AUTONOMOUS COMPONENTS; ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY; MODELING METHODOLOGY; SWARM INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 7044225896     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-39173-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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