It is not only natural to manage distributed resources in a distributed rather than centralized fashion, it is often crucial. For efficient utilization of resources and robustness decision-making should involve communication between the effected entities only. Currently we are looking at managing the network itself. In a project with Telia, routers in packet-switched network are dynamically reconfigured to obtain maximum utilization of network resources. Networked spaces form a net of navigable, evolving, extendable, collaborative worlds where people come together to talk, work, demonstrate, contribute, and play.
Virtual spaces are the most demanding of distributed applications.
We will investigate the design of a software architecture for Virtual Spaces in Mozart.