随着系统科学. 信息技术的不断发展, 我们已经处于无所不在的网络环境和计算设备中, 传统的分布式系统也随之迎来 了对自主. 协调. 开放等新特性的亟需和挑战.北京科技大学涂序彦教授和曾广平教授在广义人工生命. 拟人系统的基础上. 于2002 年提出了``软件人'' (Soft-Man)的新概念和研究方向.``软件人'' (Soft-Man)是一 种运行于计算机网络环境下虚拟机器人, 正是在这种应用需求的背景下产生的, 拟人化是当前分布式人工智能领域的一个研究热点.文章对当前``软件人''理论及其应用技术的研究现状进行了梳理, 着重阐述了任务协调. 知识通信. 迁移机制,以及``软件人''服务组装等构造原理与关键技术, 并探讨了面向移动式应用的分布式系统的未来研究方向.

With the continuous development of system science and information technology, we have lived in a world of network environment and computing devices. The traditional distributed system is facing the challenge for new features of autonomy, coordination and openness. Professors Xuyan Tu and Guangping Zeng provided the novel concept and aspect of study of SoftMan, who come from University of Science and Technology Beijing. SoftMan, a virtual robot running under computer network environment, is presented to meet these application requirements; anthropomorphism is also a research hotspot of current distributed artificial intelligent field. This paper introduces the research status of current distributed SoftMan theory and its application technology, describes some key construction principle and technology such as knowledge communication, rule inference, task cooperation, migration mechanism and SoftMan service organization and so on, and explores the future research direction of distributed system oriented to mobile application.