Social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging systems and collaborative filters, treats the group as a first-class object within the system. Drawing from theories of transactiona...
A clear terminology is essential in every research discipline. In the context of ESOA, a lot of confusion exists about the meaning of the terms emergence and self-organisation. One...
When designing decentralised autonomic computing systems, a fundamental engineering issue is to assess systemwide behaviour. Such decentralised systems are characterised by the la...
Tom De Wolf, Giovanni Samaey, Tom Holvoet, Dirk Ro...
Abstract. We present a method to test a group of agents for (unwanted) emergent behavior by using techniques from learning of cooperative behavior. The general idea is to mimick us...
Several process algebras for modelling hybrid systems have appeared in the literature in recent years. These all assume that continuous variables in the system are modelled monolit...