Adaptive Unification of Diverse, Distributed Computing Resources for IT Convergence
John Hebeler, Victoria Yoon · 2011
Modern businesses face significant obstacles in fully leveraging the increasing amount of diverse, distributed, and dynamic computing resources. IT convergence requires collaborative, adaptive distributed processing combined with a rich knowledge structure to dynamically integrate the diverse resources and efficiently forge them into useful business tools. This study presents an integrated framework, called Semantic Multi-agent Overlay Network (SMAON), for effectively unifying diverse, distributed computing resources for IT convergence. SMAON forms agent technology and the semantic web into a unified overlay network. The SMAON framework is currently in an early-deployed stage and shows promise in selectively leveraging the full potential of computing resources.