A survey on nature-inspired metaphors for pervasive service ecosystems

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 186-204

  Zambonelli, Franco ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context aware computing; Ecosystems; Metaphors; Middleware; Nature inspired approaches; Pervasive computing; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863569258     PISSN: 17427371     EISSN: 1742738X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17427371111172997     Document Type: Review

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