Global Autonomy of Distributed Autonomous Systems

This chapter presents autonomous systems that have a proto‐self and a minimal self, systems that have strong autonomy. It then reviews a major property of these systems, their deployment ability and the fact that, with their co‐activation, they can together form an autonomous meta‐system featuring the capacity to intentionally manage representations of its local representations. Any artificial autonomous system developed with a proto‐self or a minimal self must have, by certain of its tendencies, the need to open for communications towards systems it can access through networks. The simplest action for the autonomous system will be the enhancement of its functionalities by integrating some of those of the apprehended external system, taking into account the compatibility with its own functionalities and the network communication means. The modeling of the autonomy of artificial systems is meant to allow for the development of highly autonomous systems.