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Ants in your P2Pants

Posted by michael on from the riaa-kills-ants-dead dept.

Tim Finin writes: "Anthill is a framework being developed at University of Bologna to support the design, implementation and evaluation of P2P applications, viewing them as instances of Complex Adaptive Systems, typically found in biological and social sciences. In Anthill, desired properties such as resilience, adaptation and self-organization correspond to the "emergent behavior" of the underlying CA system. An Anthill system consists of a dynamic network of peer nodes; societies of adaptive agents (ants) travel through this network, interacting with nodes and cooperating with other agents in order to solve complex problems. The source code for Anthill v1.0 is available for downloading. MORE on this is at ebiquity.org."

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  1. Buzzword bingo... by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 4, Funny



    "Anthill is a frameworkDING! being developed at University of Bologna to support the designDING! , implementationDING! and evaluationDING! of P2PDING! applications, viewing them as instances of Complex Adaptive SystemsDING! , typically found in biologicalDING! and social sciencesDING! . In Anthill, desired properties such as resilienceDING! , adaptationDING! and self-organizationDING! correspond to the "emergent behavior"DING! of the underlying CA systemDING! . An Anthill system consists of a dynamic networkDING! of peer nodes; societies of adaptive agentsDING! (ants) travel through this network, interacting DING! with nodes and cooperating with other agents in order to solve complexDING! problems. The source code for Anthill v1.0 is available for downloading. MORE on this is at ebiquity.org."

    Ladies and gentlemen, we haaaave a winner..

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    Bowie J. Poag

  2. University of Bologna by dankjones · · Score: 2, Funny
    I would also like to acknowledge contributions made by the University of Frankfurt, the University of Hamburg and the University of Salisbury for their fine work.

  3. SOURCE CODE WARNING! by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anthill is full of bugs!

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    - - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
  4. I wonder... by TrixX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will the ants be transporting electronical little pieces of leaves to their ant-nest? Perhaps they could carry any kind of food too, or files, or MP3s...

    All in the name of research, of course.