An Improved Architectural Pattern for Organic Resource-Flow systems

Organic Computing or OC for short is rather a new bio-inspired paradigm that applies the OC principles extracted from the nature to technical application. The OC systems show some of the so called self-* properties especially self-organization due to their bottom up nature. To control the emergence caused by the self-organizing property of theses systems, an architectural pattern called observer/controller has been devised. In this paper, the observer/ controller architecture is improved for a subset of OC systems known as Resource- Flow Organic systems by using some known architectural/design patterns in order to achieve a new whole-system architectural pattern. The proposed architectural pattern splits the observer/controller into a set of cooperative capabilities among the agents that both covers the whole-system architecture and enables straightforward distribution of observer and controller. The result of the study is presented as a case study to show the use of the proposed pattern and its advantages.