Injecting Self-organisation into Pervasive Service Ecosystems
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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.},
apice = {SapereMONET2012},
author = {Montagna, Sara and Viroli, Mirko and Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez and Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo and Franco Zambonelli},
doi = {10.1007/s11036-012-0411-1},
eissn = {1572-8153},
issn = {1383-469X},
journal = {Mobile Networks and Applications},
keywords = {Pervasive Computing, Self-organisation, Chemical-inspired computing},
number = 3,
numpages = 15,
pages = {398--412},
publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
title = {Injecting Self-organisation into Pervasive Service Ecosystems},
url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3j4776323717w7h/},
volume = 18,
year = 2013
}