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The platform we're proposing will be the main actor of the upcoming paradigm shift from representative governance to self governance, the architecture, functionality and interface of the platform was modelled after the human anatomy. Human decision making efficiency is dependent upon the governance system of the deciding agents and the roles they play. Aligning the context in which a decision impacting...
IT environments that consist of a very large number of rather small structures like microservices, Internet of Things (IoT) components, or mobility systems are emerging to support flexible and agile products and services in the age of digital transformation. Biological metaphors of living and adaptable ecosystems with service-oriented enterprise architectures provide the foundation for self-optimizing,...
Our experience with email-based marketing campaigns (or short: “Microservices”) showed that they are an intersecting set of a) projects and processes and b) technology and creativity. Their properties of fixed due date, fixed scope and at the same time fixed duration render classical management methodologies unfeasible. The same applies to the supporting enterprise infrastructure architecture, where...
This paper presents Halos Networks as an architectural paradigm for developing ubiquitous networking and computing services at the edge of the networks A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices,...
The paper describes a design of system architecture for support of collaborative policy modelling processes in electronic governance. The policy modelling processes, as complex and knowledge intensive activities, combine collaborative creation and analysis of narrative scenarios with agent-based simulation. The proposed architecture will support collaborative approach to the policy modelling (i.e...
It is widely assumed that the cerebellum is one of the main nervous centers involved in correcting and refining planned movement and accounting for disturbances occurring during movement, for instance, due to the manipulation of objects which affect the kinematics and dynamics of the robot-arm plant model. In this brief, we evaluate a way in which a cerebellar-like structure can store a model in the...
Service-oriented systems are fast becoming complex nodes in a vast digital, dynamic ecosystem, these systems of systems require the identification and establishment of flexible and spontaneous/opportunistic collaborative activities among various parties. Such sophisticated systems need new engineering approaches able to integrate new functionalities and behaviours into running systems composed by...
The highly cross-disciplinary emerging field of neuromorphic computing architectures for cognitive information processing applications requires knowledge within many research fields: computer architecture, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive modeling, dynamical systems, belief systems, software, computer engineering, etc. In our effort to develop cognitive systems atop a neuromorphic computing...
The paper describes a business reengineering process (BPR) approach to address multi-timezone (3-timezone or 3TZ) collaborative teamwork environments by combining the Holonic architecture with the Zachman Metamodel Framework. While the use of collaborative project systems is not new, the methodology to share time resources from different timezones seeks to address pedagogical and engineering process...
Reconfiguration and self-management are important properties for systems that operate in hazardous and uncontrolled environments, such as inter-planetary space. These systems need a reconfiguration mechanism that provides recovery from individual component failures as well as the ability to dynamically adapt to evolving mission goals. One way to provide this functionality is to define a model of alternative...
The paper reviews the origins of the fundamentals of the systems notion which may underpin the development of a unifying conceptual framework that explains the notion of System of Systems and supports the development of methodologies for System of Systems Engineering. The paper is organised in two parts. Part I deals with a historical review of the development of the notion of systems and then deal...
Requirements Engineering is a sub discipline of Software Engineering, which is an important and vital phase in the overall software engineering life cycle. Software as a final product is deemed to fail if it does not fulfill the needs of its users. A number of contributions have been made to refine the requirements engineering process. Most of them attempted to link requirements to goals. This new...
This article describes our approach towards the specification and realization of interoperability within Next Generation Ambient Intelligent Environments (NGAIE). These are populated with numerous devices and multiple occupants or users exhibit increasingly intelligent behaviour, provide optimized resource usage and support consistent functionality and human-centric operation. In NGAIEs users will...
With the growing number of mobile devices connected to the network, demand for appropriate services according to the situational contexts of users is increasing. However, building such context-aware applications is costly because both the environments of users in the real world and available services on the network are dynamically changing. In this paper, we propose a Context Sharing Message Broker...
An important biology problem is the decoding of the DNA and the extraction of useful genetic information. There are many bioinformatics algorithms that try to solve the gene finding problem and one of the most efficient is the Glimmer algorithm. In this paper, we present a hardware architecture that implements the Glimmer algorithm. The architecture was developed specifically for the capabilities...
Even if virtualization technologies are mature enough to deliver remote experiment in a distance-learning context, they are not well-integrated into existing learning environments; as a consequence, they do not provide teachers with any mechanisms to get feedbacks on actions handled by learners. To tackle these issues, this paper presents an approach based on the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)...
Grid environments were initially intended to deal with issues surrounding computing-intensive applications. Today, however, the use of Grids has evolved to tackle new horizons such as managing large amounts of data and running business applications that support consumers and casual users. In particular, this evolution towards a general-purpose, Grid service-based infrastructure allows educational...
This paper presents an agent-based approach for realizing a new generation of intelligent environments referred to as adaptive ambient ecologies. These are highly distributed systems, which require new ways of communication and collaboration in order to support the realization of people's tasks. We use three types of agents for the main functions of planning, adaptation and interaction. The knowledge...
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