Biologically inspired approaches to advanced information technology
Subtitle: First International Workshop, BioADIT 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 29-30, 2004 : revised selected papers
By: Auke Jan Ijspeert, Masayuki Murata, Naoki Wakamiya (eds.).
Contributors: Ijspeert, Auke Jan.; Murata, Masayuki.; Wakamiya, Naoki, 1971-
Series: Lecture notes in computer science,; 3141.; State-of-the-art survey; Lecture notes in computer science ;; 3141.; Lecture notes in computer science.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Bioinformatics -- Congresses.; Information technology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: BioADIT 2004
Description: The evolution of the Internet has led us to the new era of the information infrastructure. As the information systems operating on the Internet are getting larger and more complicated, it is clear that the traditional approaches based on centralized mechanisms are no longer meaningful. One typical example can be found in the recent growing interest in a P2P (peer-to-peer) computing paradigm. It is quite different from the Web-based client-server systems, which adopt essentially centralized management mechanisms. The P2P computing environment has the potential to overcome bottlenecks in Web computing paradigm, but it introduces another difficulty, a scalability problem in terms of information found, if we use a brute-force flooding mechanism. As such, conventional information systems have been designed in a centralized fashion. As the Internet is deployed on a world scale, however, the information systems have been growing, and it becomes more and more difficult to ensure fau- free operation. This has long been a fundamental research topic in the field. A complex information system is becoming more than we can manage. For these reasons, there has recently been a significant increase in interest in biologically inspired approaches to designing future information systems that can be managed efficiently and correctly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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