Description
The ideas of this book originate from the mobile WAVE approach which allowed us, more than a half century ago, to implement citywide heterogeneous computer networks and solve distributed problems on them well before the internet. The invented paradigm evolved into Spatial Grasp Technology and resulted in a European patent and eight books. The volumes covered concrete applications in graph and network theory, defense and social systems, crisis management, simulation of global viruses, gestalt theory, collective robotics, space research, and related concepts. The obtained solutions often exhibited high system qualities like global integrity, distributed awareness, and even consciousness. This current book takes these important characteristics as primary research objectives, together with the theory of patterns covering them all. This book is oriented towards system scientists, application programmers, industry managers, defense and security commanders, and university students (especially those interested in advanced MSc and PhD projects on distributed system management), as well as philosophers, psychologists, and United Nations personnel.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction, 2. Spatial Grasp Model and Technology Basics, 3. Spatial Grasp Language Details, 4. Distributed System Integrity under Spatial Grasp Technology, 5. Providing Global Awareness in Distributed Dynamic Systems, 6. Simulating Distributed Consciousness with Spatial Grasp Model, 7. Managing Distributed Systems with Spatial Grasp Patterns, 8. Conclusions
