Biology-Inspired Approaches to Peer-to-Peer Computing in BISON

BISON is a research project funded by the European Commission that is developing new techniques and paradigms for the construction of robust, self-organizing and self-repairing information systems as ensembles of autonomous agents that mimic the behavior of some natural or biological process. In this paper we give a brief overview of BISON, discuss some preliminary results for peer-to-peer systems, describe the ongoing work and indicate future research directions that appear to be promising.

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