ASENSIS 2012

Emerging distributed computing scenarios (mobile, pervasive, and social) are characterised by intrinsic openness, decentralization, and dynamics. According, the effective deployment and execution of distributed services and applications calls for open service  frameworks promoting situated and self-adaptive behaviours, and supporting diversity in services and long-term evolvability. This suggests adopting nature-inspired and/or socially-inspired approaches, in which services are modelled and deployed as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices. Accordingly, the self-organizing interactions patterns among components and the resulting emerging dynamics of the system, as those of natural systems or of social systems, can inherently exhibit effective properties of self-adaptivity and evolvability.

Although many initiatives (like those named upon digital/business service ecosystems) recognise that the complexity of modern service systems is comparable to that of natural ecosystems, the idea that nature – other than a mean to metaphorically characterize their complexity – can become the source of inspiration for their actual modelling and implementation is only starting being metabolised.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, with the aims of unfolding the many challenges related to the modelling, design and implementation of adaptive service ecosystems in natural and social terms, and identifying promising approaches and solutions.

topics of interest

• Software architectures for  emergent distributed systems.
• Bio-inspired self-organising patterns Design patterns.
• Coordination models and languages.
• Middleware platforms
• Dynamic Services composition.
• Adaptive coordination models and patterns
• Self-organization and coordination
• Coordination in systems of feedback loops
• Middleware for adaptive coordination
• Multiagent systems
• Methodologies for adaptive and self-organising system engineering

hosting event

 SASO 2012

funding project

 SAPERE — Self-Aware Pervasive service Ecosystems (01/10/2010–30/09/2013)

origin event for publication

 Towards the Analysis & Prediction of Complex System Behaviour in SAPERE (paper in proceedings, 2012) — Marco Alberti, Andrea Omicini

 Self-organising Semantic Resource Discovery for Pervasive Systems (paper in proceedings, 2012) — Graeme Stevenson, Mirko Viroli, Juan Ye, Sara Montagna, Simon Dobson

 Self-Organising Semantic Resource Discovery for Pervasive Systems (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, Mirko Viroli, Sara Montagna

 ASENSIS 2012 – First International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Nature and Socially Inspired Solutions (paper in proceedings, 2012) — José Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Sara Montagna, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli

 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Natural and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012) (edited volume, 2012) — José Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Sara Montagna, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli

 Self-Organising News Management: The Molecules of Knowledge Approach (paper in proceedings, 2012) — Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini

 Self-Organising Semantic Resource Discovery for Pervasive Systems (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Graeme Stevenson, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Sara Montagna, Alberto Rosi, Juan Ye, Akla Tchao, Simon Dobson, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Mirko Viroli

 Toward Approximate Stochastic Model Checking of Computational Fields for Pervasive Computing Systems (paper in proceedings, 2013) — Matteo Casadei, Mirko Viroli

 Toward Approximate Stochastic Model Checking of Computational Fields for Pervasive Computing Systems (paper in proceedings, 2012) — Matteo Casadei, Mirko Viroli

hosting event for talk

 Self-Organising News Management: The Molecules of Knowledge Approach (ASENSIS 2012@SASO 2012, 10/09/2012) — Stefano Mariani (Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini)

 Toward Approximate Stochastic Model Checking of Computational Fields for Pervasive Computing Systems (ASENSIS 2012@SASO 2012, 10/09/2012) — Mirko Viroli (Matteo Casadei, Mirko Viroli)

 Towards the Analysis & Prediction of Complex System Behaviour in SAPERE (ASENSIS 2012@SASO 2012, 10/09/2012) — Andrea Omicini (Andrea Omicini, Marco Alberti)