Propelled by advances in software design and increasing connectivity, distributed computational systems are acquiring characteristics reminiscent of social and biological organizations. This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the nature, design and implementation of these open computational systems. Although varied in their approach and methodology, the articles are related by the goal of understanding and building computational ecologies. They are grouped in three major sections. The first deals with general issues underlying open systems, studies of computational ecologies, and their similarities with social organizations. The second part deals with actual implementations of distributed computation, and the third discusses the overriding problem of designing suitable languages for open systems. All the articles are highly interdisciplinary, emphasizing the application of ecological ideas, game theory, market mechanisms, and evolutionary biology in the study of open systems.
Propelled by advances in software design and increasing connectivity, distributed computational systems are acquiring characteristics reminiscent of social and biological organizations. This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the nature, design and implementation of these open computational systems. Although varied in their approach and methodology, the articles are related by the goal of understanding and building computational ecologies. They are grouped in three major sections. The first deals with general issues underlying open systems, studies of computational ecologies, and their similarities with social organizations. The second part deals with actual implementations of distributed computation, and the third discusses the overriding problem of designing suitable languages for open systems. All the articles are highly interdisciplinary, emphasizing the application of ecological ideas, game theory, market mechanisms, and evolutionary biology in the study of open systems.
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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978-0-444-70379-8 (9780444703798)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Ecology of Computation (B.A. Huberman). Offices are Open Systems (C. Hewitt). Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work (D.B. Lenat, J.S. Brown). Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective (M.S. Miller, K.E. Drexler). The Behavior of Computational Ecologies (B.A. Huberman, T. Hogg). Deals among Rational Agents (J.S. Rosenschein, M. Genesereth). Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems (M.S. Miller, K.E. Drexler). Enterprise: A Market-Like Task Scheduler for Distributed Computing Environments (T.W. Malone et al.). From Rig to Accent to Mach: The Evolution of a Network Operating System (R.F. Rashid). Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management (K.E. Drexler, M.S. Miller). Guardians and Actions: Linguistic Support for Robust, Distributed Programs (B. Liskov, R. Scheifler). Language Design and Open Systems (K.M. Kahan, M.S. Miller). The Next Knowledge Medium (M.J. Stefik).
