Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Field-Based Coordination for Pervasive Multiagent Systems (Springer Series on Agent Technology)
Field-Based Coordination for Pervasive Multiagent Systems (Springer Series on Agent Technology)
Design patterns from biology for distributed computing
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
A survey of autonomic communications
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Engineering of IT ecosystems: design of ultra-large-scale software-intensive systems
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Ultra-large-scale software-intensive systems
MyAds: A system for adaptive pervasive advertisements
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Grounding ecologies on multiple spaces
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
HPobSAM for modeling and analyzing IT Ecosystems - Through a case study
Journal of Systems and Software
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Pervasive and mobile computing devices increasingly populate our environments. In this context, innovative frameworks have to be identified for the deployment and execution of pervasive service systems made up of a massive number of components, and able to exhibit properties of self-organization and self-adaptability, and of long-lasting evolvability. This paper discusses how such frameworks could get inspiration from natural systems, by modeling and deploying services as autonomous agents, spatially situated in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices, all of which acting, interacting, and evolving according to a limited set of ''laws of nature''. A conceptual architecture is introduced to frame the key concepts of nature-inspired approaches and to survey the key natural metaphors that can be adopted to realize the concept of pervasive service ecosystems. Following, the key characteristics of our original ecological approach are detailed, also with the help of representative case studies, and an extensive set of simulation experiments are reported to show the potential effectiveness of the approach.