A Study on Using Biological Metaphors to Develop Evolutionary Software Systems

Author

Kitjongthawonkul, S. ; Thuy-Linh Nguyen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus., Australian Catholic Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

165

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the process of establishing a design methodology for software that displays evolutionary characteristics that are similar to living organisms. We use biological metaphors to develop this design. To do this, we first identify what the basic evolutionary entities of the software are, then we investigate what features are required of them, and what evolutionary mechanism and evolutionary path can be designed for them so that the software may evolve in a biological like manner. Finally, we show that object-orientation, a web system, and meta-modelling have great potential for design a system with biologically life-like characteristics.

Keywords

Internet; biology computing; evolutionary computation; Web system; basic evolutionary entities; biological metaphors; design methodology; evolutionary mechanism; evolutionary path; evolutionary software systems; living organisms; metamodelling; object-orientation; Evolution (biology); Genetics; Organisms; Sociology; Software; Statistics; biological evolution; biological metaphors; metamodelling techology; object-orientation; software evoltuion; statefulness; web system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Modelling & Simulation (ISMS), 2013 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

ISSN

2166-0662

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5653-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMS.2013.65

Filename

6498256