摘要:
A system for distributed process management uses a plurality of units of software installed on a computing platform. Further software controls operation of the plurality of units in use. Each unit of software communicates with other units of software, and at least some of the units of software further provides one or more elements of a software process. The further software being capable of defining at least one set of software units and controlling communication by the units in the set to be limited to communication only with other units of the set
摘要:
In a method of operating a data network comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes (30) each of which is operable to perform one or more services upon receiving a suitable request for a service, one or more user devices (10) connected to the network can issue requests (12,14) for a service to be carried out by a node or nodes within the network. The method comprises: operating a virtual mechanism (50) in which a plurality of different types of elements (61,65,66,67) are represented, each element obeying a set of rules associated with the respective type of the element, the respective set of rules specifying how the element behaves, wherein each element has a location property which may be correlated to one or more nodes or node locations, the method further comprising analysing the virtual mechanism (50) and selecting one or more services to be offered by each node (30) in the network based on the analysis of the virtual mechanism.
摘要:
In a method of operating a data network comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes (30) each of which is operable to perform one or more services upon receiving a suitable request for a service, one or more user devices (10) connected to the network can issue requests (12, 14) for a service to be carried out by a node or nodes within the network. The method comprises: operating a virtual mechanism (50) in which a plurality of different types of elements (61, 65, 66, 67) are represented, each element obeying a set of rules associated with the respective type of the element, the respective set of rules specifying how the element behaves, wherein the probabilistic rules governing the creation, destruction and alteration of the elements are arranged to ensure that the total population of elements per node, and/or the total number of each type of element per node tends to remain below a certain settable threshold population whereby the mechanism can generally be operated without requiring elements to be dropped because of a lack of hardware processing resources, thereby maintaining the efficiency of the mechanism.