Biological Metaphors in he Design of Complex Software Systems
Dan Cristian Marinescu, Ladislau L Bölöni · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1999
In this paper we discuss metaphores inspired by structural biology, genetics, neurology and immunology for building complex software systems.Structural biology offers hints for software composition.Genetics provides ideas to construct software modules from descriptions.A network of software agents could emulate the nervous system, coordinate various activities and mediate amongst interacting entities.Immunology inspires the design of secure systems.As a case study we present Bond, a distributed-object system providing agent support for network centric computing.