Bio-inspired self-organization for supporting dynamic reconfiguration of modular agents

This paper presents an approach to develop and manage a self-organizing distributed components based system in dynamically changing environments. In the proposed approach, an application is composed of a federation of distributed, autonomous and diverse mobile agents. Each mobile agent is implemented as dynamically associated bio-inspired modular components, that can migrate and reconfigure by themselves while the application is being executed. Association between modular components can be changed and transformed according to agents' local migration schemes including deployment based on biological processes. This paper presents a an adaptive architecture, which can reorganize and reconfigure agents after several biological concepts and mechanisms. We describe several key features of the modular components, depict the design and implementation methodologies of the modular component-based self-organizable framework, and demonstrate how the framework satisfies a set of functional requirements derived from the features of our agents. We also present some simulation results to examine scalability and efficiency of the framework.