Modeling Indirect Interaction in Open Computational Systems

  • Authors:
  • David Keil;Dina Goldin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Open systems are part of a paradigm shift fromalgorithmic to interactive computation. Multiagentsystems in nature that exhibit emergent behavior andstigmergy offer inspiration for research in open systemsand enabling technologies for collaboration. Thiscontribution distinguishes two types of interaction,directly via messages, and indirectly via persistentobservable state changes. Models of collaboration areincomplete if they fail to explicitly represent indirectinteraction; a richer set of system behaviors is possiblewhen computational entities interact indirectly, includingvia analog media, such as the real world, than wheninteraction is exclusively direct. Indirect interaction istherefore a precondition for certain emergent behaviors.