Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)


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A sequel to Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments, this title introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model for distributed processing and control in dynamic and open worlds of any natures. The new control theory and technology introduced in the book can be widely used for the design and implementation of many distributed control systems, such as intelligent network management for the Internet, mobile cooperative robots, Rapid Reaction forces, future Combat Systems, robotics and AI, NMD, space research on other planets, and other applications.This title:
* Demonstrates a much simpler and more efficient application programming
* Cultivates a new kind of thinking about how large dynamic systems should be designed, organized, tasked, simulated, and controlled
* Introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model for distributed processing
* Compares the universal WAVE-WP model to other existing systems used in intelligent networking
Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing) Review
"Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds" describes the World Processing language and the Wave-WP model for implementing large distributed systems. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with distributed computation, the software of robotic systems and application spaces such as network management and security and other crisis management scenarios.Wave-WP is an extension of the Wave model of distributed processing expounded in the author's 1999 text "Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments." His new text extends the model to embrace "spatial programming", using a "virtual world" abstraction whose content is assembled using the distributed Knowledge Network concept of the earlier Wave paradigm. Throughout the text, he supplies numerous examples of how Wave-WP interacts with the physical world, in such missions as multi-robot firefighting and hospital maintenance. More traditional applications of distributed processing such as network management are also discussed, as are security applications.
The Wave-WP paradigm superficially resembles the mobile agent paradigm. The author argues that it is qualitatively different to the latter in that mobile agent solutions anticipate emergent behaviour from the specified actions of the mobule agents, whereas Wave-WP operates at a higher level (the "implementation layer"). This allows some complex application behaviour to be generated from remarkably simple and concise Wave-WP code. A number of such examples are presented in the text.
The book includes a detailed description of the World Processing language and of the Wave-WP interpreter, and of the various worlds inhabited by the paradigm (the virtual world, the execution world, the physical world and the "united" world). The range of worlds occupied is (in this reviewer's opinion) the key distinction between Wave-WP and its predecessor Wave architecture.
Readers persuaded of the power of Wave-WP will doubtless be itching to try it out for themselves. Unfortunately, it was not yet available as a product when the book was published (as mentioned by the author in his preface) although earlier versions of Wave have been made available to the research community. Despite this limitation (which may well have been addressed by the time you read this review), the book is a provocative read for anyone interested in innovations in distributed systems.
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