Coordinating Spatially-Situated Pervasive Service Ecosystems


Mirko Viroli, Elena Nardini, Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli

Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Luigi Palopoli, Wilma Russo, Giandomenico Spezzano (eds.)
WOA 2011 - XII Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti", pages 19-27
CEUR Workshop Proceedings 741
Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University, Rende, Italy
4-6 July 2011

Technology evolution is providing new pervasive service scenarios characterised by a huge number of distributed and dynamic devices. Accordingly, a new generation of services and infrastructures are emerging which support situatedness, adaptivity and diversity. In this paper we model the overall world of services, data and devices, as a distributed computational ecosystem. Each entity will be modelled as an autonomous, spatially-situated individual of the ecosystem, whose existence is reified by an LSA (Live Semantic Annotation). Ecosystem's behaviour is controlled by coordination rules called eco-laws, which are sort of chemical-like reactions evolving the population of LSAs. We describe an architecture supporting this vision along with a model of eco-laws, and show their usefulness in a scenario of crowd steering through pervasive displays.

Journals & Series

Events

  • 12º Workshop Nazionale “Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti” (WOA 2011) — 04/07/2011–06/07/2011

Publication

— authors

Mirko Viroli, Elena Nardini, Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli

— editors

Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Luigi Palopoli, Wilma Russo, Giandomenico Spezzano

— status

published

— sort

paper in proceedings

— publication date

4-6 July 2011

— volume

WOA 2011 - XII Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti"

— series

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

— volume

741

— pages

19-27

— address

Rende, Italy

URLs

original page

identifiers

— print ISSN

1613-0073

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