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Sociologically Inspired Approaches for Self-*: Examples and Prospects

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One way of approaching the engineering of systems with self-* properties is to examine naturally occurring systems that appear to have such properties. One line of work examines biological theories and phenomena. Ideas from the social sciences are less well explored as a possible source of self-* techniques. We briefly overview some recent work that follows this latter approach and consider some specific prospects for future work.

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  1. The University of Bologna, Italy

    David Hales

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  1. Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Ozalp Babaoglu

  2. Szeged University, Hungary

    Márk Jelasity

  3. University of Trento, Italy

    Alberto Montresor

  4. Department of Computer Science, Technische Universtät Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Christof Fetzer

  5. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Leonardi

  6. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Aad van Moorsel

  7. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maarten van Steen

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Hales, D. (2005). Sociologically Inspired Approaches for Self-*: Examples and Prospects. In: Babaoglu, O., et al. Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems. SELF-STAR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11428589_28

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