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

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.

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

@inproceedings{sapere-woa2011,
	Address = {Rende, Italy},
	Author = {Viroli, Mirko and Nardini, Elena and Castelli, Gabriella and Mamei, Marco and Zambonelli, Franco},
	Booktitle = {WOA 2011 -- XII Workshop Nazionale "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti"},
	Editor = {Fortino, Giancarlo and Garro, Alfredo and Palopoli, Luigi and Russo, Wilma and Spezzano, Giandomenico},
	Issn = {1613-0073},
	Month = {4-6~} # jul,
	Pages = {19--27},
	Publisher = {Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University},
	Series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	Title = {Coordinating Spatially-Situated Pervasive Service Ecosystems},
	Url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-741/ID13_ViroliNardiniCastelliMameiZambonelli.pdf},
	Volume = 741,
	Year = 2011}