Social System Inspired Anticipatory Models for Software Infrastructures

This paper describes innovative, charitable (anticipatory) model of software infrastructure, technical challenges and the rationale of its design that drove the concept. Social models such as the benefactor/beneficiary model of MUlti-agent Distributed Storage Middleware can be successfully applied to many areas as a means of automating a wide range of resource distribution challenges both in traditional and future distributed systems. An environment populated with redundant components can benefit from a charitable entity, allowing possibly wasted resources to be efficiently distributed to the network on a voluntary basis.