IBM Israel Research Seminars

Today's complex distributed systems calls for novel methods for modeling, design and implementation. The “active museum” being developed within the PEACH project is an example of such a system. In order to model the system, a new pattern called Implicit Organization was defined that supports the coordination requirements of the agents that compose the system. This pattern was applied within the PEACH museum’s visitor guide; its implementation was based on the “channeled multicast” capability offered by the LoudVoice infrastructure. The system analysis and design, reported in this paper, demonstrates the need and use of the Implicit Organization pattern. The talk discuss the current state of implementation of PEACH and the PEACH-IL extension of it, using a general purpose environment that supports the development of such highly distributed and dynamic systems.

This will be an extension of talk given at AVI 2004 and it will be extended to include a description of state of work at the Hecht museum.