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- Title
Injecting Self-Organisation into Pervasive Service Ecosystems.
- Authors
Montagna, Sara; Viroli, Mirko; Fernandez-Marquez, Jose; Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna; Zambonelli, Franco
- Abstract
Pervasive service ecosystems are a new paradigm for the design of context-aware systems featuring adaptivity and self-awareness. A theoretical and practical framework has been proposed for addressing these scenarios, taking primary inspirations from natural ecosystems and grounding upon two basic abstractions: 'live semantic annotations' (LSAs), which are descriptions stored in infrastructure nodes and wrapping data, knowledge, and activities of humans, devices, and services; and 'eco-laws', acting as system rules evolving the population of LSAs as if they were molecules subject to chemical-like reactions. In this paper, we aim at deepening how self-organisation can be injected in pervasive service ecosystems in terms of spatial structures and algorithms for supporting the design of context-aware applications. To this end, we start from an existing classification of self-organisation patterns, and systematically show how they can be supported in pervasive service ecosystems, and be composed to generate a self-organising emergent behaviour. A paradigmatic crowd steering case study is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
- Subjects
SELF-organizing systems; BIOTIC communities; CONTEXT-aware computing; SEMANTICS; CASE studies; SELF-consciousness (Awareness)
- Publication
Mobile Networks & Applications, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 3, p398
- ISSN
1383-469X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11036-012-0411-1