Autonomous Function Composition and Evolution for Information Network

• Project/Area Number: 25280029
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Information network
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Wakamiya Naoki 大阪大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (50283742)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Arakawa Shin'ichi 大阪大学, 大学院情報科学研究科, 准教授 (20324741) ; Koizumi Yuki 大阪大学, 大学院情報科学研究科, 助教 (50552072)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥17,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,140,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
• Keywords: 情報ネットワーク / 自己組織化制御 / ネットワーク制御 / 生物ダイナミクス / 遺伝的アルゴリズム / 協調制御 / 強調生後 / 自己組織化 / 機能創発 / 構造的進化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Information networks have been introducing new or improved protocols one after another to satisfy diverse requirements of a variety of emerging applications. Consequently, current network systems have become considerably large, complex, and even fragile. In this work, to accomplish a sustainable
network system which autonomously adapts to diverse requests by dynamically generating necessary control mechanisms, we propose an autonomous function composition method. More specifically, each node has small pieces of networking functions, called function modules, and appropriately combines them to answer each service request. Combinations are refined taking into account the degree of satisfaction of users by a genetic algorithm. Through simulation experiments, we verify that our proposal can adapt to changes in requests in the multi-user environment.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Autonomous Function Composition for Information Network Adaptive to Changes in Service Request (2014)
  • Author(s): Shunji Okamoto and Naoki Wakamiya
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014) Volume: １ Pages: 59-62
  • DOI: 10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257879
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Self-organizing power law topology for the name resolution system of ICN (2014)
  • Author(s): S. Eum, S. Arakawa, and M. Murata
  • Journal Title: Journal of Complex Network Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-17
  • DOI: 10.1093/comnet/cnu008
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Autonomous Function Composition for Information Network Adaptive to Changes in Service Request (2016)
  • Author(s): Shunji Okamoto and Naoki Wakamiya
  • Organizer: IEEE International Conferences on Autonomic Computing
  • Place of Presentation: ドイツ
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-19
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Linux カーネルを用いたネットワーク機能の接続関係の分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 宮川 裕考, 荒川 伸一, 村田 正幸
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会IN研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-16
• [Presentation] マイクロロボットを用いた瓦礫内探索のグラフを用いた解析に関する検討 (2015)
  • Author(s): 小泉佑揮, 原田稔, 長谷川亨
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会総合大会
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-10
• [Presentation] ゆらぎを活用した情報通信技術 (2014)
  • Author(s): 若宮直紀
  • Organizer: 日本学術振興会「分子系の複合電 子機能第181委員会」第18回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 国際高等研究所（京都府）
  • Invited