Towards a RESTful infrastructure for digital ecosystems

  • Authors:
  • Alexandros Marinos;Sotiris Moschoyiannis;Paul Krause

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Surrey, Surrey, UK;University of Surrey, Surrey, UK;University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe key design aspects of digital ecosystems and how these can be realised in a web-like environment. In previous work we have discussed digital ecosystems in terms of digital infrastructures and the socio-economic context in which these are called to operate. We have framed the concept of a digital ecosystem around complex interactions between interdependent agents and have focused the discussion on important properties such as loose-coupling, no central point of control or failure, sustainability, resilience, and history. In this paper we describe an integrated set of design solutions for operationalising the key principles of digital ecosystems into a software infrastructure. The proposed reference architecture drives the construction of RESTful ecosystems that can support future internet applications, and do this in a way that is backwards compatible with the current web.