The programme aims to encourage the transfer of ideas and insights, and to stimulate research to advance computing and IT beyond the foreseeable capabilities of existing technologies. Identification of key research issues within the area. Identification of enabling technologies and tools. Recommendations to move the area forward. The Emergent Behaviour Computing Network recognises the need for new computational paradigms, aimed at circumventing the limitations of conventional silicon and computing technologies, and at the comprehension and control of complex systems.
Complex systems exhibit behaviours that are a product of the system as a whole.
Such behaviours have long been recognised in natural systems, but man-made can also exhibit such emergent behaviours. These behaviours are always unintended and often detrimental. This Network will focus on extending current distributed computing by exploring the potential for harnessing Emergent Behaviour Computing.