Talk:Decentralised system

Related to Distributed Systems
Could relate this to distributed systems, while noting that a key difference is that distributed systems may still rely on centralised control.

It should be possible RealityDysfunction (talk) 09:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

RealityDysfunction (talk) 19:52, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Strengths and Weaknesses
 * problems that can arise in decentralised systems
 * example Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region
 * Natural vs Designed
 * examples of natural decentralised systems
 * examples of designed systems and the design patterns the employ
 * examples from different industries

A comment on the picture representing de-centralized systems
I agree on the relation with distributed systems and add that the picture used to represent de-centralized control in the main page does not depict its very definition. In fact de-centralized control refers to a system were the reaching of a global target is achieved by a multitude of peer nodes, acting following their own rules or possibly interacting with each other, but without coordination by a special (central) node. It seems to me that this has nothing to do with the connection topology of the nodes. The picture shows a star topology and a more general tree topology, both of which with a root node, which I find strongly misleading. In my opinion, the idea of de-centralized control is better represented by a set of nodes disconnected from each other. 193.106.183.2 (talk) 12:48, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Ecosystems
Would an ecosystem be a reasonable example of a naturally occurring decentralised system?

RealityDysfunction (talk) 20:09, 6 March 2010 (UTC)