CORTEX: Towards supporting Autonomous and Cooperating Sentient entities

Verissimo, Paulo and Cahill, Vinny and Casimiro, António and Cheverst, Keith and Friday, Adrian and Kaiser, Jörg (2002) CORTEX: Towards supporting Autonomous and Cooperating Sentient entities. In: Proceedings of European Wireless 2002 (EW2002), 2002-02-26 - 2002-02-28.

[thumbnail of ew02.pdf]
Preview
PDF (ew02.pdf)
ew02.pdf

Download (259kB)

Abstract

A new class of application that operates independently of direct human control is starting to emerge. It is our belief that the development of such applications is highlighting the shortcomings of current communication architectures and middleware infrastructures. In particular, they do not adequately support advanced dynamic interaction models, e.g., in the field of autonomous agents, distributed AI, and mobile co-operating entities. As we describe, our work represents the beginning of an attempt to bridge the gap between the requirements being put on system support by these advances, and the shortcomings of current architectures and middleware models. Therefore, this paper explores the problem of providing infrastructure support for large distributed systems composed of mobile autonomous components. It describes a programming model supporting these applications based on the concept of sentient objects, and a hierarchical distributed communication architecture. Because the components may be part of the physical environment, issues such as predictability and environment awareness in the interactions between objects and environment deserve particular attention.

Item Type:
Contribution to Conference (Paper)
Journal or Publication Title:
Proceedings of European Wireless 2002 (EW2002)
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/libraryofcongress/qa75
Subjects:
?? cs_eprint_id586 cs_uid1qa75 electronic computers. computer science ??
ID Code:
12123
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
21 May 2008 09:46
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
22 Oct 2024 00:13