Knowledge-based generic intelligent network model

An intelligent network provides information processing, retrieval and transfer services for an arbitrary number of users in a transparent way. The architecture proposed is based on the demand-driven information processing model with static or dynamic task allocation over inhomogeneous or homogeneous resource types and network structures. Such a system can be modelled as having logical, temporal and topological structures, together with operations on these structures. The necessary mathematical concepts for modelling such a system are parameterised hierarchical relations, logic functions, hierarchies of variables with their hierarchical control operators, and neighbourhood/similarity structures. These concepts are then applied to define a knowledge module. By composition of knowledge modules and intelligent switches, we obtain the generic intelligent network. Introducing a model time as a partially ordered set of events, an evolutionary system can be considered: both its capabilities and its active structure.