Soft Computing Agents for Dynamic Routing
Georgi Kirov · Information & Security An International Journal · 2003
information. The pace of change in the software industry is so great that the traditional distributed solutions may run out of steam in the not too distant future. The forces of competition, regulation, convergence and globalization are driving change. Each one of these forces is changing the way we realize interconnected applications and the nature of networks and services. At present, the existing software technologies and network management infrastructures are getting old and information distributed systems cannot cope with the speed of response required in tomorrow's world. It is questionable whether traditional computing technologies can cope with the total information management demands of global network applications that companies will need to field in the early 21 st century in order to remain competitive. Increasingly, a great variety of different software applications and worldwide information services, such as WWW servers, databases, software packages, distance learning, video on demand, are being connected through the Internet, intranets, and other network systems. With the arrival of new technologies it is necessary to attempt to coordinate the action of these disparate entities within a cohesive framework. Standard distributed systems rely on message-based exchange with fixed connections, and as such, these systems are of limited efficiency when one attempts to use a large number of applications. Situations like these are prohibitively expensive in both time and resources, unless network applications cooperate effectively through an appropriate communication infrastructure. The field of distributed network systems is in a critical need of intuitive and innovative approaches and novel algorithms to