Making Programs to Perceive Time Flow

Biological rhythms in humans have cycles ranging from minutes to months. Those rhythms are based on changes in various physiological and behavioral functions of organisms that repeat at regular intervals providing a framework of temporal organization for them. This paper describes the mapping the biological clock concept from humans to machines in the context of a knowledge-based operating system. We have identified three dimensions over which such a new operating system paradigm has to be based: (i) physical dimension, (ii) logical dimension, and (iii) temporal dimension. The physical dimension describes the physical components and their structural relationship. The logical dimension describes the functional characteristics of each physical component and the time dimension is provided in order to enable the entire system to perceive the time flow - as a biological clock in human beings.