ICCS07/194

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[edit] Principles for Engineered Emergence

Jacob Beal, MIT

Abstract

It is difficult to establish engineering control over the behavior

of aggregates of unreliable devices with complicated interaction

patterns. I take a linguistic view of this problem, searching for

mechanisms that simplify the composition and abstraction of

complicated behaviors. From my work on various problems of

aggregate control in cognitive architectures and spatial computing,

I have noticed common themes in mechanisms that solve them. From

these, I extract four principles which seem to help in engineering

robust aggregate behavior---self-scaling, sparseness, gradual

degradation, and failure simplification---and give examples of how

they can be exploited.

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