Decentralized approaches for self-adaptation in agent organizations

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kota, Ramachandra ^a   Gibbins, Nicholas ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agent organization; Autonomic computing; Organization structure; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGENT ORGANIZATION; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 80155135209     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2168260.2168261     Document Type: Article

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