Modeling the characteristics of system of systems

2009 IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baldwin, W Clifton ^a   Sauser, Brian ^b  

^a FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Autonomy; Belonging; Connectivity; Modeling; System of systems; Systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELING; CONNECTIVITY MODELING; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 74949089193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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