In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing
autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA …

The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area
in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in …

Modelica is a general-purpose modeling language mainly designed to facilitate the
development, reusability and exchange of models. It represents the state-of-the-art in …

Robot manufacturers will be required to demonstrate objectively that all reasonably
foreseeable hazards have been identified in any robotic product design that is to be …

NASA's Exploration Initiative (EI) will push space exploration missions to the limit. Future
missions will be required to be self-managing as well as self-directed, in order to meet the …

Emergent behavior is an important issue in distributed systems' design. Detecting and
removing emergent behavior during the design phase will lead to huge savings in …

Autonomic Computing (AC), a self-managing systems initiative based on the biological
metaphor of the autonomic nervous system, is increasingly gaining momentum as the way …

Agent-based models (ABM) and their simulations have been used to study complex systems
with interacting entities and to model multi-agent systems. Simulations are used to explore …

Quality monitoring is a continuous function that uses the systematic data collection to
provide management with indications of goals achievement. Higher education is considered …

A major issue in Complexity Science is the formal description of emergent properties and
behaviours in terms of lower level properties and behaviours. As a consequence, there are …