Pervasive Service Architecture for a Digital Business Ecosystem

TL;DR

This paper proposes a distributed, open-source infrastructure for SMEs to support dynamic service composition and optimization within a Digital Business Ecosystem, leveraging biological algorithms for self-organization.

Contribution

It introduces architectural principles for a scalable, open-source platform enabling SMEs to dynamically compose and optimize software services using evolutionary algorithms.

Findings

Design principles for a distributed service infrastructure

Framework for dynamic service composition and optimization

Application of biological algorithms to service ecosystems

Abstract

In this paper we present ideas and architectural principles upon which we are basing the development of a distributed, open-source infrastructure that, in turn, will support the expression of business models, the dynamic composition of software services, and the optimisation of service chains through automatic self-organising and evolutionary algorithms derived from biology. The target users are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We call the collection of the infrastructure, the software services, and the SMEs a Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE).