This paper presents the Living Systems R ©Technology Suite, LS/TS, a middleware based on autonomous software agents and autonomic computing principles. Specifically, the paper describes the autonomic principles built into LS/TS, and the features that follow from them. These features are described within the context of a general taxonomy of autonomic systems, elaborating on the relationship betw...

Systems biology and synthetic biology have emerged at the dawn of the twenty-first century as two new research fields that hold much promise for both understanding living systems and novel practical applications. The two disciplines have much in common, not least that the scientists working within their respective frameworks share the conviction that organisms are made of partially independent ...

To address the challenge of an ageing population in an information society, it is important to introduce information systems to assist the aged people in maintaining and improving their quality of life. An understanding of what information aged people need, how they seek and use information, and how they adopt Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is required. This paper reports the fi...

Living systems theory provides a conceptual model the use of which might help to improve the understanding of an organisation and its problems, thus helping analysts to find solutions to these problems. A method to guide the application of living systems theory to the analysis of organisations is needed. In this work, a number of methods based on living systems theory are analysed, and a method...