A need for biologically inspired architectural description: The agent ontogenesis case

Abstract

Biologically inspired complex adaptive systems (BICAS) have and will continue to move from research laboratories into industry. As the abstractions presented by biologically inspired systems move into industry, systems architects will be required to include the abstractions in their architectural descriptions (ADs) in order to communicate the design to system implementers. The paper argues that in order to correctly present the architectures of BICAS an additional set of biologically inspired views will be required. The paper then describes a set of additional biologically inspired architectural views for use when describing the architecture of BICAS. Finally the paper constructs a set of viewpoints for the biologically inspired views and demonstrates their use in agent ontogenesis. The paper also demonstrates the usage of a number of techniques for describing the architecture of BICAS. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.