Development and integration of distributed intelligent systems

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The worldwide proliferation of wireless local area networks has resulted in a rapid increase of wirelessly enabled products for industrial, commercial, and military applications. Although network infrastructures are being implemented by many service providers to offer wireless connectivity, they fail to provide services that enable devices to use the network efficiently and intelligently. In present day implementations of wireless applications, the ability to support communications, information storage, and decision making usually resides in servers and controllers. Thus, many devices continue to be relatively unintelligent because they can only function properly when they are connected to these servers and controllers. Dependence on centralization for systems integration and decision making adds an extra layer of complexity and administration that negatively impacts the efficiency, robustness, and cost of the overall system. The remedy to this difficulty is available in a paradigm based on distributed intelligent systems, and, in particular, the concept of Holonic Intelligence. With these principles, the proposed project will develop and integrate systems that utilize Holonic Intelligence together with recent advances in reconfigurable field programmable gate arrays to develop a control and coordination infrastructure for distributed intelligent systems. We expect the proposed research to result in a more flexible, scalable, robust, and cost effective infrastructure to support the development and integration of distributed intelligent systems and provide a migration path from current client/server technologies to fully distributed intelligent systems for which dependence on centralized servers is unnecessary.