Emergence

Abstract

This is a distributed amorphous computing environment consisting of a large number of nodes and communications links subject to intermittent failure, likely destruction, and limited power resources. Human configuration and control of this environment is futile. Humans steer the network by declaring general interests. Translating higher level tactical interest into low-level activities is an ill-posed problem requiring a bottom-up emergent-control push to interact with the user’s pull. This system is a large complex entity whose behavior is defined by interactions among multiple participants.