On the impact of variation on self-organizing systems

Proceedings - 2011 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 119-128

  Campbell, Adam ^a   Riggs, Cortney ^a   Wu, Annie S ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

emergent coordination; multi agent systems; self organization; variation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE BEHAVIOR; DISCRETE MODELS; EMERGENT COORDINATION; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; VARIATION;

CYBERNETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 81255190771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASO.2011.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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