Architecture and Metaphors for Eternally Adaptive Service Ecosystems

Franco Zambonelli, Mirko Viroli

In this paper, we first motivate the need for innovative open service frameworks that ensure capability of self-adaptability and long-lasting evolvability (i.e., eternity). On this basis, we discuss how such frameworks should get inspiration from natural ecosystems, by enabling modelling and deployment of services as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices. A reference architecture is presented to clarify the concepts expressed, and then several possible approaches to realise the idea are surveyed and critically analyzed.

(keywords) Selforganising systems, Ecoservices, Bio-inspired models, Adaptive systems, Infrastructures

Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence 162/2008, pages 23-32, September 2008, Springer
2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2008), Catania, Italy, 18?19 September 2008. Proceedings

@incollection{EcoservicesIdc08,
	Author = {Zambonelli, Franco and Viroli, Mirko},
	Booktitle = {Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications},
	Doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_3},
	Isbn = {978-3-540-85256-8},
	Issn = {1860-949X},
	Issn-Online = {1860-9503},
	Keywords = {Self-organising systems, Ecoservices, Bio-inspired models, Adaptive systems, Infrastructures},
	Month = sep,
	Note = {2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2008), Catania, Italy, 18--19~} # sep # {~2008. Proceedings},
	Pages = {23--32},
	Publisher = {Springer},
	Series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	Title = {Architecture and Metaphors for Eternally Adaptive Service Ecosystems},
	Volume = {162/2008},
	Year = 2008}