Emergent Software Service Platform and its Application in a Smart Mobility Setting

TL;DR

This paper proposes an architecture for an emergent software service platform designed for dynamic, autonomous system landscapes, demonstrated through a smart parking lot scenario, addressing challenges in controlling complex digital ecosystems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture and engineering methodology for emergent software service platforms in open, dynamic environments.

Findings

Demonstrated architecture in a smart parking scenario

Addresses control challenges in complex digital ecosystems

Proposes a new engineering methodology for emergent platforms

Abstract

The development dynamics of digital innovations for industry, business, and society are producing complex system conglomerates that can no longer be designed centrally and hierarchically in classic development processes. Instead, systems are evolving in DevOps processes in which heterogeneous actors act together on an open platform. Influencing and controlling such dynamically and autonomously changing system landscapes is currently a major challenge and a fundamental interest of service users and providers, as well as operators of the platform infrastructures. In this paper, we propose an architecture for such an emergent software service platform. A software platform that implements this architecture with the underlying engineering methodology is demonstrated by a smart parking lot scenario.