Written by Jose Ricardo de Oliveira Damico (aka Damico)
IntroductionThis is a new architectural model for Internet use. This new model extends significantly the efficiency of group working, teaching and research. In addition, to optimizing the computing power of personal computers in
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processes of knowledge management and search.
The Tamandare project promotes a functional evolution in personal computers connected to the Internet, to enable them to be not only consumers of services and resources, but they become service providers as well.
In terms of technology, the Tamandare project uses the concepts of Grid and P2P as the foundation for a distributed environment, but every element of the network uses a new taxonomy that describes itself as separate representations of humans and machines, and several other subgroups. The concept of differentiation by entities is essential for the processing and distribution of information to assimilate patterns and behavior of who or what they represent. Therefore, it is correct to infer that this project also uses artificial intelligence combined with autonomous agents.
To get a correct understanding is necessary to think of this project as a framework, as a technological environment for any social group that works with knowledge, digital content, education or ideas in general. Formed in a distributed computing, small sets of phones, video games, personal computers, connected to each other in private networks interconnected by the Internet. So that each device divide your computing capacity to process, manage and find content related to the object of work of every social group. Furthermore this framework will change the behavior of personal devices. They will represent with artificial intelligence the digital identity of its user. Together these representations will build, live social networks (decentralized and synchronous).
The conceptSince 1994 the Internet has been used and expanded based on client-server model. Model in which about 200 million websites are accessed by approximately 1.7 billion customers. Even with the rise of P2P model the vast majority of services and resources used on the Internet continue to use the client-server model.
There are millions of people with a huge computing resources, that produce constantly increasing knowledge, but only bits and pieces of it are deposited in the servers, according to the interests and learning needs, Search, Social Networks, etc.. The fact is that the compilers of these data systems remain centralized in large servers, that once there, they cannot follow the continuity of information. Therefore, each person is limited to filling out forms and use the features of each application for expression of its personal digital identity. Everything behind several redundant 'user accounts' that are the only representatives of their real entities.
There is an inconsistency which we are all submitted by lack of alternative. Since our computers, handhelds, cell phones, GPSs, game consoles, mp3s, digital cameras, add our information daily, our communications and our interactions, we still have to access the site from our universities to send our articles, we have to access intranets of companies where we work for to submit our reports, we have to access our social networks to post our profiles. Everything under the platform of each system. And all this information and knowledge have been already processed and compiled into our private computing environments, which are also nodes of the same Internet. This inconsistency is two-way, is not only present in the content delivery, but also at the reception. I mean, to read extracts from banks, our academic results, the profiles of our contacts, again, we depend on the architecture of each application. However this information is so important to us, that to gain access to them, either we use restricted and repetitive communication (inside a not every efficient online app), or we need to convert them and turn them on our local repositories.
Still, it is not enough, this inconsistency comes at a more dramatic way, when the life of a human being that is increasingly integrated digitally is divided into facets to each website to which this same human being register and enter your information . In other words, it creates a digital schizophrenic aggravated by the fact that each website - for more information that has the same body - not communicate with each other. In effect, any attempt at replication of what the human being is or does, coming up on repetition and incomplete info.
Observe, in what has been said so far, that if we replace the presentation of self, of being, of the individual, by 'company' or 'institution', we have the basic description of the problem of intercommunication processes and internal/external information from corporations and their supply chains. The difference lies in the fact that the search for the resolution of this problem - from companies side - has led to an industrial evolution of information technology. Although still incomplete, this evolution can be clearly seen in the adoption of a service-oriented architecture. Therefore, when we return to our focus on the 'individual', otherwise there is a latent trend, similar to the process already started in the market. And Tamandaré proposed project, is to foster this evolution and create something that could in some ways be called as Embedded SOA, SOA Social or Human SOA.
Finally, the innovation of Tamandaré is the formulation of a new decentralized and distributed model that represents the human being as a digital entity. An evolution of systems peer-to-peer in which the replicated object is the entity itself, no more files. There are also more positive aspects in this design, for instance, the natural formation of social networks where their bodies have a dynamic activity, based on incessant mimicking of the behavior from who they represent. No more static profiles whose updates depend on logical requests to the same old servers. [Less]
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