Thinking Networks - the Large and Small of it: Autonomic and Reasoning Processes for Information Networks
Kieran Greer · Lulu Press eBooks · 2008
This book will describe different aspects of knowledge-based networks and is both important and timely for future Internet-based or mobile information networks. This book combines the topics of Artificial Intelligence, service-based systems and distributed knowledge management. It hopes to give a broad overview and introduction to various aspects of these networks, with respect to existing mechanisms for representing and using such systems. After reading this book the reader should have a good idea of the sort of systems and algorithms that can be used to organise and use knowledge in today's world and where we might be going to in the future. The second half of the book will discuss some research ideas in the area of self-organisation and reasoning. The research will propose different levels of reasoning that can be performed over an information network, or a neural-like network and will ultimately offer an architecture that will allow the network to 'think'.