On fault tolerance in law-governed multi-agent systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 21-27

  De C Gatti, Maíra A ^a   De Lucena, Carlos J P ^a   Briot, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

criticality; dependability; law enforcement; open systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERACTION; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; CRITICALITY; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; GLOBAL PROBLEMS; RESTRICTED PROBLEM; SOFTWARE ENTITIES;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953504730     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138063.1138068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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