Integration by Negotiated Behavior Restrictions

摘要

In this short paper, we take a hint from biology about forming collectives. Some mammal heart muscle cells, when isolated in the laboratory, become viable single-cell animals, with many observable traits in common with other "wild" single-cell animals. That is to say, these autonomous systems (the isolated cells) give up an enormous amount of their capability (movement, certain kinds of growth, etc.) in order to form a collective that has desirable emergent properties. Our view is that there must be some kind of negotiation, via evolution in the biological case, that has each system voluntarily reducing its capabilities to integrate into a combined system, and offering some classes of functionality to the collective that are refined during the negotiation. The negotiation process must have detailed intimate knowledge of the range of capabilities of each of the participating systems, such as that inherently provided by using a Wrapping infrastructure. An important issue is that many legacy systems have no such negotiating capability, and we propose the use of another mechanism, the BrainPatch, as an add-on to perform that task.