Artificial Life, Self-Organization, Distributed Objects, Evolving Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Chaos and China Information Systems Redfish is working on tools to facilitate the gathering and delivery of Chinese information. The foundation for these tools is a network of software objects poised to self-organize and reproduce. Networks compete for limited network processing time and memory. Objects with fit behavior reproduce. Unfit ones don't.
Cooperative objects persist and extend their relations with other objects.
Behaviors are governed by neural networks with topologies and connectivity weights indirectly determined by objects' genomes, developmental processes and interaction with the environment. Objects evolve to higher levels of fitness via the mechanisms of natural selection and self-organization. Nodes of the neural networks interact in a simulated chemical matrix. The network is an open design running on UNIX, Windows and Macintosh. The objects make up the business rule layer of an n-tier information system.