The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
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Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds
Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds
Understanding nonlinear dynamics
Understanding nonlinear dynamics
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Business Dynamics
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
Co-Fields: A Physically Inspired Approach to Motion Coordination
IEEE Pervasive Computing
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Case studies for self-organization in computer science
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal - Special issue: Nature-inspired applications and systems
Toward nature-inspired computing
Communications of the ACM
Experiences applying formal approaches in the development of swarm-based space exploration systems
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
Toward Requirements Engineering for Self - Organizing Multi - Agent Systems
SASO '07 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
ADELFE: a methodology for adaptive multi-agent systems engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
An agent architecture to design self-organizing collectives: principles and application
Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems
Organizational and social concepts in agent oriented software engineering
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Using the experimental method to produce reliable self-organised systems
Engineering Self-Organising Systems
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
A Systemic Approach to the Validation of Self---Organizing Dynamics within MAS
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
SOAR'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on Self-organizing architectures
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The utilization of self-organizing processes promises scalability, robustness and adaptivity in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), solely based on decentralized coordination of individual actors. Bionicdevelopment approaches have been established, which reuse decentralized coordination mechanisms that are derived from natural self---organizing systems. In this paper, we address analysis activities in incremental MAS development, concerning with the derivation of system architectures that enable applications to meet system requirements. As the functional requirements to self---organizing MAS comprise recurring types of system wide dynamics, we propose a systemic approach to analysis and architectural design activities by the iterative refinement of macroscopic dynamics. Based on a catalog of dynamic models of currently applied environment---mediated design metaphors, we discuss how intended MAS dynamics can be modeled and refined to decentralized MAS designs. A systemic design procedure is proposed and exemplified in a case study that demands the combination of two established design metaphors to enable an projected level of MAS adaptivity.