Understanding the scope of uncertainty in dynamically adaptive systems

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

Volumn 6182 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 2-16

  Welsh, Kristopher ^a   Sawyer, Pete ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

claims; dynamically adaptive system; goal models; self adaptation; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

GOAL MODELS; SELF ADAPTATION; SOLUTION STRATEGY; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION SCENARIOS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955449058     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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