TY - GEN
T1 - A need for biologically inspired architectural description
T2 - 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007
AU - Van Zyl, Terence L.
AU - Ehlers, Elizabeth M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Biologically inspired complex adaptive systems (BICAS) have and will continue to move from research laboratories into industry. As the abstractions presented by biologically inspired systems move into industry, systems architects will be required to include the abstractions in their architectural descriptions (ADs) in order to communicate the design to system implementers. The paper argues that in order to correctly present the architectures of BICAS an additional set of biologically inspired views will be required. The paper then describes a set of additional biologically inspired architectural views for use when describing the architecture of BICAS. Finally the paper constructs a set of viewpoints for the biologically inspired views and demonstrates their use in agent ontogenesis. The paper also demonstrates the usage of a number of techniques for describing the architecture of BICAS.
AB - Biologically inspired complex adaptive systems (BICAS) have and will continue to move from research laboratories into industry. As the abstractions presented by biologically inspired systems move into industry, systems architects will be required to include the abstractions in their architectural descriptions (ADs) in order to communicate the design to system implementers. The paper argues that in order to correctly present the architectures of BICAS an additional set of biologically inspired views will be required. The paper then describes a set of additional biologically inspired architectural views for use when describing the architecture of BICAS. Finally the paper constructs a set of viewpoints for the biologically inspired views and demonstrates their use in agent ontogenesis. The paper also demonstrates the usage of a number of techniques for describing the architecture of BICAS.
KW - Agent ontogenesis
KW - Architectural description
KW - Architectural views
KW - Biologically inspired complex adaptive systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650337233&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01639-4_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650337233
SN - 3642016383
SN - 9783642016387
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 146
EP - 157
BT - Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems - 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2007, Revised Papers
Y2 - 21 November 2007 through 23 November 2007
ER -