A foundational analysis of software robustness using redundant agent collaboration

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2592, Issue , 2003, Pages 355-369

  Holderfield, Vance T ^a   Huhns, Michael N ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT COLLABORATION; AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPARISON STUDY; DECISION-MAKING MECHANISMS; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; SOFTWARE ROBUSTNESS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HYPOTHESIZE;

EID: 7444250242     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36559-1_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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