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The ecology of computation: B.A. Huberman, ed. by Michael P. Wellman is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The ecology of computation: B.A. Huberman, ed. about?
The Ecology of Computation (EoC) is a book of metaphors. Bernardo Huberman and most of the contributors to this collection believe I that adopting a social or ecological perspective on distributed computation offers distinct advantages over the prevalent centralized individualistic viewpoint. Although this attitude is shared by many researchers in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) [2,3,8], the realization of a societal perspective rarely proceeds beyond the metaphorical. The articles collected here push further, developing analytical techniques and architectural foundations based directly on concepts from biology and the social sciences. The computational environments under investigation are open systems, defined by Huberman as "distributed computational systems without global controls". The characteristics of open systems enumerated by Hewitt-----concurrency, asynchrony, incrementality, incompleteness and inconsistency of central \* (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988); 342 pages, $84.25 (hardback), $39.50 (paperback). l In reviewing a compilation such as this, it seems impossible to simultaneously provide an overall sense of the book, maintain accuracy, and avoid hedging univ
Who reads The ecology of computation: B.A. Huberman, ed.?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- Michael P. Wellman
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0004-3702)
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)