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The relation between a structure and the function running on that structure is of central interest in many fields, including computer science, biology (organ vs. function), psychology (body vs. mind), architecture (designs vs. functionality), etc. Our paper addresses this question with reference to computer science recent hardware and software advances, particularly in areas as robotics, AI-hardware, self-adaptive systems, IoT, CPS, etc. At the modelling, conceptual level, our main contribution is the introduction of the concept of "virtual organism" (VO), to populate the intermediary level between rigid, slightly reconfigurable, hardware agents and abstract, intelligent, adaptive software agents. A virtual organism has a structure, resembling the hardware capabilities, and it runs low-level functions, implementing the software requirements. The model is compositional in space (allowing the virtual organisms to aggregate into larger organisms) and in time (allowing the virtual organisms to get composed functionalities). Technically, the virtual organisms studied here are in 2D and their structures are described by regular 2D pattens; adding the time dimension, we conclude the VO mo

Author

Paduraru, Ciprian Ionut; Stefanescu, Gheorghe

Published

2018

Language

EN