The theory of promises describes policy governed services, in a framework of completely autonomous agents, which assist one another by voluntary cooperation alone. We propose this as a framework for analysing realistic models of modern networking, and as a formal model for swarm intelligence.
Index Terms:
Pervasive computing, control theory, promise theory, swarm intelligence.
Citation:
Mark Burgess, Siri Fagernes, "Promise theory - a model of autonomous objects for pervasive computing and swarms," icns, pp.118, International conference on Networking and Services (ICNS'06), 2006