Cognitive Application Area Networks: A New Paradigm for Distributed Computing and Intelligent Service Orchestration

Distributed systems are dynamic systems where software and hardware together deliver information processing services to allow modelling, interaction, reasoning, analysis and control of the external environment. The intent of the distributed computation is to execute computational workflows using computing resources. The software contains the algorithms that specify the tasks while the hardware provides the required resources to execute the algorithms. The initial structure is defined by the association of software with hardware and the dynamic structure is defined by their temporal evolution. The meta-knowledge of the intent of the algorithm, the association of specific algorithm to a specific device, their temporal evolution and exception handling when the computation deviates from the intent is outside the software and hardware design and is expressed in non-functional requirements. In this paper, we describe an architecture to capture the meta-knowledge in meta-containers and enforce the intent of the computation while the computation is in progress.