"Embryo": an autonomic co-operative service management framework
Fabrice Saffre, Mark Shackleton · Artificial Life · 2008
In this paper, we present “Embryo”, a fully decentralized service management framework inspired by morphogenesis and capable of installing components and modifying the topology of a peer-to-peer (P2P) interaction overlay network so as to meet the needs of the majority of all participating peers. Cooperation is an emergent property of the self-organisation process, which is underpinned by purely “selfish” decisionmaking based on incomplete information gathered through gossiping (local messaging). We provide a detailed description of the local reasoning loop governing the behavior of individual peers, as well as Monte Carlo simulation results that demonstrate the system’s ability to converge to a stable state in which most peers have direct access to all the components they require via one of their first neighbors.