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Engineering Self-organising Systems

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Self-organising Software

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Abstract

Nowadays applications are becoming more and more complex, and multi-agent systems are proven an efficient paradigm for implementing this complexity, especially when self-organisation principles are applied. However, designing such self-organising systems becomes an issue: even if many agent-oriented methodologies are provided for developing multi-agent systems, only a few are interested in helping designers when applying self-organisation and emergence principles. This chapter aims at expounding some of them with a special focus on the more mature one, ADELFE.

Designing self-organising systems represents a challenge, and new tools have to be provided for helping designers; agent-oriented methodologies are now focusing on this issue.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    As suggested by the SASO conference, www.saso-conference.org.

  2. 2.

    ADELFE is a French acronym meaning “toolkit to develop software with emergent functionality”. It was a French RNTL-funded project (2000–2003).

  3. 3.

    http://www.auml.org/

  4. 4.

    http://www.neptune.irit.fr

  5. 5.

    See the web site of ADELFE, http://www.irit.fr/ADELFE.

  6. 6.

    http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/

  7. 7.

    http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/

  8. 8.

    http://www.openarchitectureware.org/

  9. 9.

    Make Agents Yourself, http://www.irit.fr/MAY.

  10. 10.

    http://www.upetec.com

  11. 11.

    http://www.irit.fr/ADELFE

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    Carole Bernon, Marie-Pierre Gleizes & Frédéric Migeon

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Bernon, C., Gleizes, MP., Migeon, F., Di Marzo Serugendo, G. (2011). Engineering Self-organising Systems. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Gleizes, MP., Karageorgos, A. (eds) Self-organising Software. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17348-6_12

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