Pervasive Information Community Organization (PICO): A Framework for Internet Services of the Future

普适信息社区组织（皮科）是一个创建面向任务的软件代理动态社区的框架，这些代理代表用户和设备执行任务。 皮科提供自动化的持续服务，以改善生活质量，并通过增强现有的互联网服务有效地利用资源。皮科使Internet能够有效地应用于许多动态变化的时间关键应用，这些应用要求异构环境中的物理设备、软件代理和人员之间的主动实时协作。（智能代表）和硬件实体，称为camileuns（连接的、自适应的、移动的、智能的、学习的、高效的、无处不在的节点）。i）创建面向任务的软件代理动态社区，ii）QoS管理，用于社区之间的即时通信和主动协作，作为一种普适计算模式，皮科在远程医疗、军事、危机管理以及日常生活中有着广泛的应用。在这个项目中，研究人员专注于皮科的设计和开发，并研究其作为分布式协作平台的适用性。 通过远程医疗应用，研究人员展示了皮科作为互联网增强框架的全部潜力，它不仅独特，简单和通用，而且还可以与当前和未来的硬件/软件工具一起工作。具体而言，建议的任务包括：皮科架构的正式规范，设计和开发;远程医疗场景的需求分析; QoS和资源管理; PICO原型开发;以及验证，性能评估和基准测试。支持PICO的普及环境将彻底改变互联网的使用方式，提高生活质量，促进以用户为中心的应用程序。皮科项目将导致学生在普适计算方面的培训，高质量的硕士和博士论文，以及向医疗保健提供者，专业人员和其他研究人员转让技术。

Pervasive Information Communities Organization (PICO) is a framework tocreate mission-oriented dynamic communities of software agents that perform taskson behalf of users and devices. PICO provides automated continual services toimprove quality of life, and to utilize resources efficiently by enhancingexisting Internet services. PICO enabled Internet will be used effectivelyin many dynamically changing time-critical applications that demandproactive real-time collaborations among physical devices, software agents,and personnel in heterogeneous environments.The main components of PICO are software entities, called delegents(intelligent delegates) and hardware entities, called camileuns (connected,adaptive, mobile, intelligent, learned, efficient, ubiquitous nodes).The novel features of PICO include: i) creation of mission-oriented dynamiccommunities of software agents, ii) QoS management for just-in-timecommunication and proactive collaboration among communities, and iii)adaptability to dynamic environments through context- andlocation-awareness.As a pervasive computing paradigm, PICO has applications in many domainssuch as telemedicine, the military, crisis management, and many day-to-dayactivities. In this project the researchers focus on the design and development of PICO,and investigate its applicability as a platform for distributedcollaborations. Through telemedicine applications, the researchers demonstrate the fullpotential of PICO as an Internet enhancement framework that is not onlyunique, simple, and versatile, but can also work with current and futurehardware/software tools. Specifically, the proposed tasks include: formalspecifications, design, and development of PICO architecture; requirementsanalysis for telemedicine scenario; QoS and resource management; PICOprototype development; and validation, performance evaluation andbenchmarking. PICO-enabled pervasive environments will revolutionize the waythe Internet is being used, enhance quality of life and promote user-centricapplications. The PICO project will result in the training of students inpervasive computing, high quality masters and doctoral theses, and transferof technology to health care providers, professionals and other researchers.