CO-operative Real-time senTient objects: architecture and EXperimental evaluation (CORTEX)
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.
Project Dates
April 2001 to September 2004
Selected Publications
- Hector A. Duran-Limon, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Friday, Thirunavukkarasu Sivaharan, and George Samartzidis. "A Resource and QoS Management Framework for a Real-Time Event System in Mobile Ad Hoc Environments". Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2003 Fall), Capri Island, Italy. October 2003. pdf.
- T. Sivaharan, G. Blair, A. Friday, M. Wu, H. Duran-Limon, P. Okanda, C. F. Sorensen, "Cooperating Sentient Vehicles for Next Generation Automobiles", Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (WAMES'04), Boston, June 2004. pdf.
Project Web Site
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/mpg/projects/cortex/
Investigators
- Gordon Blair
- Keith Cheverst
- Adrian Friday
- Hector Duran Limon
- Paul Okanda
- Thirunavukkarasu Sivaharan
- Maomao Wu
Principal Contact
Gordon Blair (Email: gordon - add @comp.lancs.ac.uk)