Advances in complexity engineering

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 199-212

  Frei, R ^a   Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Bio inspired; Complex adaptive systems; Complexity science; Emergence; Engineering; Multi agent systems; Nature inspired; Robotics; Self * properties; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOMIMETICS; ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMY; BIO-INSPIRED; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY SCIENCE; EMERGENCE; NATURE-INSPIRED; SELF ORGANISATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857185480     PISSN: 17580366     EISSN: 17580374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2011.041144     Document Type: Review

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