| 摘要 |
Autonomous computational processes (“agents”) representing application-specific data items (e.g., representations of real-world entities or events, any-media documents, models, etc.) are provided with application-independent methods and data structures to arrange themselves (according to application specific relationship measures) relative to other such agents even when the agents' ability to sense or communicate with other agents is limited relative to the extent of the overall collection. A continuously executing arrangement decision process executed by each agent modifies the agent's position in the chosen topology (e.g., metric space, graph structure) such that the chosen distance measure between agent positions approximates the relationship structure among the currently available data-items. A separate information exchange process executed by the agents ensures that knowledge about the position and data-item of other agents is made available to the arrangement decision process without requiring high-volume communication. |
