Author:Van Zyl, TL; Ehlers, EM; Marais, EDate:2010The paper reports on the original concept of introducing Resource-Negotiating (RN) agents into telemanufacturing. Human users submit a design file that they want manufactured. The machine that will be selected to manufacture the design file ...Read more
Author:Van Zyl, TL; Ehlers, EMDate:Jul 2009The Sensor Web as an open complex adaptive system exhibits many characteristics that are common to self organising systems. One of the characteristics of the Sensor Web is that of self-adaptivity in a changing environment. The changing ...Read more
Author:Van Zyl, TL; Ehlers, EMDate:Jul 2010The article presents the use of signal regulatory networks (SRNs), a biologically inspired model based on gene regulatory networks. SRNs are a way of understanding a class of self-organizing IT systems, signal-regulated systems (SRSs). This ...Read more