We are now at the point where the emergence of a new
class of applications that operate independently of human control can be
envisaged. Future mission critical computer systems will be comprised of
networked components that will act autonomously in responding to a
myriad of inputs to affect and control the surrounding environment. Key
characteristics of these applications include sentience, autonomy, large
scale, time and safety criticality, geographical dispersion, mobility
and evolution.
The key objective of CORTEX is to explore the
fundamental theoretical and engineering issues necessary to support the
use of sentient objects to construct large-scale proactive applications
and thereby validate the use of sentient objects as a viable approach to
the construction of such applications.
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