Development and integration of distributed intelligent systems

无线局域网在全球范围内的普及导致了用于工业、商业和军事应用的无线产品的快速增长。尽管许多服务提供商正在实施网络基础设施以提供无线连接，但它们无法提供使设备能够高效和智能地使用网络的服务。在当今的无线应用实施中，支持通信、信息存储和决策的能力通常驻留在服务器和控制器中。因此，许多设备仍然相对不智能，因为它们只有在连接到这些服务器和控制器时才能正常运行。对系统集成和决策的集中化的依赖增加了额外的复杂性和管理层，对整个系统的效率、稳健性和成本产生了负面影响。这一困难的补救方法是基于分布式智能系统的范例，特别是全息智能的概念。根据这些原则，拟议的项目将开发和集成利用Holonic Intelligence的系统，以及可重新配置的现场可编程门阵列的最新进展，以开发分布式智能系统的控制和协调基础设施。我们预计拟议的研究将产生一个更灵活、更可扩展、更健壮和更具成本效益的基础设施，以支持分布式智能系统的开发和集成，并提供一条从当前客户端/服务器技术到完全分布式智能系统的迁移路径，而完全分布式智能系统不需要依赖中央服务器。

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.