TY - CHAP
T1 - Emergent distributed bio-organization
T2 - A framework for achieving emergent properties in unstructured distributed systems
AU - Eleftherakis, George
AU - Paunovski, Ognen
AU - Rousis, Konstantinos
AU - Cowling, Anthony J.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Distributed systems are particularly well suited to hosting emergent phenomena, especially when individual nodes possess a high degree of autonomy and the overall control tends to be decentralized. Introducing novel bio-inspired behaviours and interactions among individual nodes and the environment as a means of engineering desirable behaviours, could greatly assist with managing the complexity inherent to artificial distributed systems. The paper details the Emergent Distributed Bio-Organization (EDBO) as an abstract distributed system model aiming to engineer emergent properties at the macroscopic level. EDBO was designed to be suitable as a starting point in the design of a specific class of problems of real-world distributed systems. A thorough discussion justifies why the proposed bio-inspired properties planted into the model, could potentially allow for the desired behaviours to emerge.
AB - Distributed systems are particularly well suited to hosting emergent phenomena, especially when individual nodes possess a high degree of autonomy and the overall control tends to be decentralized. Introducing novel bio-inspired behaviours and interactions among individual nodes and the environment as a means of engineering desirable behaviours, could greatly assist with managing the complexity inherent to artificial distributed systems. The paper details the Emergent Distributed Bio-Organization (EDBO) as an abstract distributed system model aiming to engineer emergent properties at the macroscopic level. EDBO was designed to be suitable as a starting point in the design of a specific class of problems of real-world distributed systems. A thorough discussion justifies why the proposed bio-inspired properties planted into the model, could potentially allow for the desired behaviours to emerge.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32524-3_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32524-3_5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84867940117
SN - 9783642325236
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 23
EP - 28
BT - Intelligent Distributed Computing VI
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -