A method fragments approach to methodologies for engineering self-organizing systems

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Puviani, Mariachiara ^a   Serugendo, Giovanna Di Marzo ^b   Frei, Regina ^c   Cabri, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED METHODOLOGIES; META MODEL; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC LIGHT;

CYBERNETICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870196530     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2348832.2348836     Document Type: Article

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