Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack, Heather Turner.
Engineering Emergence.

ICECCS 2006: 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Stanford, CA, USA, August 2006 , pp 89-97. IEEE, 2006

[ Invited talk ]

Abstract:

We explore various definitions and characteristics of emergence, how we might recognise and measure emergence, and how we might engineer emergent systems. We discuss the TUNA ("Theory Underpinning Nanotech Assemblers") project, which is investigating emergent engineering in the context of molecular nanotechnology, and use the TUNA case study to explore an architecture suitable for emergent complex systems.

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  author = "Susan Stepney and Fiona Polack and Heather Turner",
  title = "Engineering Emergence",
  pages = "89-97",
  crossref = "ICECCS-06"  
)

@proceedings(ICECCS-06,
  title = "ICECCS 2006: 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of
	          Complex Computer Systems, Stanford, CA, USA, August 2006",
  booktitle = "ICECCS 2006: 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of
           Complex Computer Systems, Stanford, CA, USA, August 2006",
  publisher = "IEEE",
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