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Evolution of Verification Techniques by Increasing Autonomy of Cooperating Agents

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As system parts are becoming increasingly decoupled, gaining at the same time in terms of local autonomy, this article elaborates on the effects this trend has on verification and validation techniques. Both qualitative approaches to fault detection and quantitative approaches to reliability assessment are analyzed in the light of their evolution to adapt to the increasing decentralization and autonomy of modern ‘systems of systems’.

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Saglietti, F., Söhnlein, S., Lill, R. (2012). Evolution of Verification Techniques by Increasing Autonomy of Cooperating Agents. In: Unger, H., Kyamaky, K., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Autonomous Systems: Developments and Trends. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24806-1_27

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