Autonomous Distributed System Based on Behavioral Model of Social Insects

Social insects are self-organized living organism without a commanding system with a single leader. A model which realizes self-organization of social insects can be constructed using a reaction threshold model based on the concept of Stigmergy. This paper proposes such a model of new autonomous distributed system using a behavioral model of social insects. This model is able to allocate autonomous computation resources and retain fault tolerance without the control of a commanding manager. Our evaluation results show that the proposed model works as an autonomous distributed system and demonstrates its effectiveness for fault tolerance. A problem with respect to unequal resource distribution was found in the experimental model, so we proposed an improved method.