Self-Organisation and Emergence in MAS: An Overview

@article{selforgmas-informatica30,
   apice = {SelforgmasInformatica30},
   abstract = {The spread of the Internet and the evolution of mobile communication, have created new possibilities for software applications such as ubiquitous computing, dynamic supply chains and medical home care. Such systems need to operate in dynamic, heterogeneous environments and face the challenge of handling frequently changing requirements; therefore they must be flexible, robust and capable of adapting to the circumstances. It is widely believed that multi-agent systems coordinated by self-organisation and emergence mechanisms are an effective way to design these systems. This paper aims to define the concepts of self-organisation and emergence and to provide a state of the art survey about the different classes of self-organisation mechanisms applied in the multi-agent systems domain. Furthermore, the strengths and limits of these approaches are examined and research issues are provided.},
   author = {Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo and Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Anthony Karageorgos},
   crossref = {informatica30-1},
   editor = {Omicini, Andrea and Paolo Petta and Matjaz Gams},
   eissn = {1854-3871},
   issn = {0350-5596},
   journal = {Informatica},
   keywords = {multi-agent systems, self-organisation, emergence},
   month = jan,
   note = {Special Issue ``Hot Topics in European Agent Research II''},
   number = 1,
   numpages = 10,
   pages = {45--54},
   publisher = {Slovene Society Informatika},
   title = {Self-Organisation and Emergence in MAS: An Overview},
   url = {https://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/72},
   volume = 30,
   year = 2006
}