Stephen Bush. Islands of Near-Perfect Self-Prediction. In Proceedings of VWsim'00: Virtual Worlds and Simulation Conference, WMC'00: 2000 SCS Western Multi-Conference, San Diego, SCS (2000). Jan 2000.
In the course of efforts to more fully utilize the power of active networks to build a self-managing communications network, the nature of entanglement and the relationship between modeling and communication become of utmost importance. This paper provides a very brief introduction to Active Networks and the Active Virtual Network Management Prediction Project whose goal is a self-managing communications network. The focus of the paper is upon the effects of near-infinite resources; that is, how will such a self-predictive system behave as processing and bandwidth become ever larger and more powerful. An attempt is made to identify new theories required to understand such highly self-predictive systems.