A biochemical approach to adaptive service ecosystems

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1876-1892

  Viroli, Mirko ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biochemical computing; Distributed systems; Nature inspired computing; Pervasive computing; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SERVICES; BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS; CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE; DATA SOURCE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EVOLVABILITY; LONG LASTING; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; NETWORK SCENARIO; OPEN SERVICES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; SELF-ADAPTABILITY; SELF-ORGANISATION; SERVICE FRAMEWORK;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 77649180494     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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