Providing Integrity, Awareness, and Consciousness in Distributed Dynamic Systems

The ideas of this book originate from the mobile WAVE approach which allowed us, more than half century ago, to implement citywide heterogeneous computer networks and solve distributed problems on them well before the internet. The invented paradigm evolved into Spatial Grasp Technology resulted in European Patent and eight books which were oriented on concrete applications in graph and network theory, defence and social systems, crises management, simulation of global viruses, gestalt theory, collective robotics, space research, and others. The obtained solutions often exhibited high system qualities like global integrity, distributed awareness, and even consciousness. The current book takes these important characteristics as primary research objectives, together with the theory of patterns covering them all. It starts from reviewing and classification of numerous publications in these areas and then expresses their main features in Spatial Grasp Language, the basic element of the technology. The obtained results can be used for the creation of most advanced civil, defence, and security systems which can effectively operate even in very complex and critical situations. The book also extends applications of the developed spatial grasp paradigm to such areas as psychology and international relations. This could help develop advanced models of world economic, cultural, political, security and military organizations, using for their simulation advanced computer, communication, and information systems and networks. The proper modification of such models, which can cooperate and compete with each other, along with their repeated simulation, may lead to real strategies supporting world peace and prosperity. The current book is oriented on system scientists, application programmers, industry managers, defence and security commanders, university students, especially those interested in advanced MSc and PhD projects on distributed system management, also philosophers, psychologists, United Nations personnel too.