Breathrough in Artificial Intelligence aids Autonomic Computing

Australian-based e-business system developer Internet Business Systems (IBS) says that its SafeWorld team has made a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence that greatly simplifies the design of e-business systems and promises to speed-up the delivery of ubiquitous autonomic computing.

Team leader Alan Metcalfe says that the breakthrough relates to how autonomic systems like the human mind work and are able to monitor themselves in real time. He says that the work has implications for the entire computing industry.
'Companies like IBM have done much in the past year to raise industry awareness of the serious problem of computer system complexity and the need for autonomic computing', Alan Metcalfe said in Brisbane, Australia this week. 'We have been working in this area for the past ten years and have recently made historic breakthroughs in understanding how the autonomic system of the human body works and how to apply this knowledge to the design of computer systems.'
IBS believes that the SafeWorld breakthrough has application from the design of simpler computers to global e-business and the proposed Semantic Web. The central problem with all computing systems, dating back to the fifties when British computer pioneer Alan Turing grappled with how to design an equation-solving machine has been understanding how to replicate the human thought process. Without this knowledge, computers and computer systems will always be limited by the problem of complication and ubiquitous computing will remain a distant dream.
IBS says that its SafeWorld development team has now finished the design of what it believes is the worlds first fully integrated, fully inter-operable e-system that has application wherever e-business or any e-activity is required to be undertaken. The team is now working on delivering a working system in 2003 and is looking for European partners to participate in proof of concept trials and commercialization.
For further information:,Alan Metcalfe,Internet Business Systems,PO Box 587, Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia 4004,Email: [e-mail] Metcalfe is a pioneer of Internet e-business research. He has been researching, designing, and building e-business systems since 1989 before the World Wide Web existed. His focus since 1990 has been on solving the problem of how to create a fully integrated, fully inter-operable computer system that could be used to make e-business and other e-activities as ubiquitous as the telephone.
,For more information on the problems and the challenge of autonomic computing see:
http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/
For more information on the difficulties of integration and inter-operability see:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/10/interop.html

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• Autonomic Computing

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Australia