Title :
A Study on Using Biological Metaphors to Develop Evolutionary Software Systems
Author :
Kitjongthawonkul, S. ; Thuy-Linh Nguyen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus., Australian Catholic Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
In this paper, we examine the process of establishing a design methodology for software that displays evolutionary characteristics that are similar to living organisms. We use biological metaphors to develop this design. To do this, we first identify what the basic evolutionary entities of the software are, then we investigate what features are required of them, and what evolutionary mechanism and evolutionary path can be designed for them so that the software may evolve in a biological like manner. Finally, we show that object-orientation, a web system, and meta-modelling have great potential for design a system with biologically life-like characteristics.
Keywords :
Internet; biology computing; evolutionary computation; Web system; basic evolutionary entities; biological metaphors; design methodology; evolutionary mechanism; evolutionary path; evolutionary software systems; living organisms; metamodelling; object-orientation; Evolution (biology); Genetics; Organisms; Sociology; Software; Statistics; biological evolution; biological metaphors; metamodelling techology; object-orientation; software evoltuion; statefulness; web system;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems Modelling & Simulation (ISMS), 2013 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5653-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISMS.2013.65
