Bio-Inspired Self-Reconfigurable Architecture for Mobile Agents in Distributed and Networked Environments

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to develop and manage self organizing distributed components systems in dynamically changing environments. The main idea of this approach is to construct an application by a dynamic association of bio-inspired modular agents that can migrate and reorganize by themselves while the application is being executed. An association of agents can be migrated and transformed according to agents' local policies including deployment based on biological processes. We have designed an adaptive architecture, which can reorganize and reconfigure agents after several biological concepts and mechanisms, and implemented a platform to host the architecture on the dynamically changing environments. The agents in the proposed framework are designed based on several biological concepts. This paper depicts several key features of the agents in the framework, and describes the design and implementation of the proposed platform. Several simulation results are presented to examine scalability and efficiency of the platform.