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Issue title: Special Issue on Nature inspired systems for parallel, asynchronous and decentralised environments
Guest editors: Enda Ridgex, Edward Curryy, Daniel Kudenkox and Dimitar Kazakovx
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Pezzulo, Giovannia; * | Calvi, Gianguglielmob
Affiliations: [a] Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione – CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44 – 00185 Roma, Italy. Tel.: +39 6 44595206; Fax: +39 06 44595 243; E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Noze s.r.l, Via Giuntini, 25 – 56023 Navacchio, Cascina (PI), Italy. E-mail: [email protected] | [x] Department of Computer Science, The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK | [y] Department of Information Technology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author
Abstract: AKIRA is an open source framework designed for parallel, asynchronous and distributed computation, on the basis of some general architectural principles which are inspired by modular organization in biological systems. We introduce the motivation behind its design, the components of the framework and some examples of use: 1) a case study in a simple number domain, in which its capabilities such as context sensitiveness are highlighted; 2) an architecture for visual search tasks, in which a goal oriented behavior emerges from the cooperation and competition of many feature-specific modules, organized hierarchically; 3) a schema-based agent architecture, inspired by an ethological model of the praying mantis, including drives, schemas, routines and realizing visual and motor behavior in a realistic simulated environment.
Keywords: Software architecture, distribution, parallelism, modularity, decentralization
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2007-3106
Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 65-86, 2007
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