Title :
A New Paradigm for SpeckNets: Inspiration from Fungal Colonies
Author :
Falconer, Ruth ; Bown, James ; Hart, Emma ; Timmis, Jon
Author_Institution :
SIMBIOS Centre, Univ. of Abertayz Dundee, Dundee
Abstract :
In this position paper, we propose the development of a new biologically inspired paradigm based on fungal colonies, for the application to pervasive adaptive systems. Fungal colonies have a number of properties that make them an excellent candidate for inspiration for engineered systems. Here we propose the application of such inspiration to a speckled computing platform. We argue that properties from fungal colonies map well to properties and requirements for controlling SpeckNets and suggest that an existing mathematical model of a fungal colony can developed into a new computational paradigm.
Keywords :
ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; SpeckNets; biologically inspired paradigm; fungal colonies; pervasive adaptive systems; speckled computing platform; Adaptive systems; Biology computing; Conferences; Fungi; Mathematical model; Network topology; Organisms; Pervasive computing; Robustness; Systems engineering and theory; fungal colony; specknets;
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, 2008. SASOW 2008. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3553-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3553-1
DOI :
10.1109/SASOW.2008.55
