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Exploring On-Demand Composition of Pervasive Collaborations in Smart Computing Environments

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops (OTM 2016)

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Abstract

The increasing amount and interconnection of smart devices holds a high potential for complex collaborations. Smart computing environments will heavily rely on the collaboration of multiple of such systems but they also become more decentralized and volatile. Such collaborations cannot be managed centrally anymore as they emerge and disappear dynamically. The key challenges of such systems are specification of complex collaborations as well as decentralized discovery, composition and subsequent adaptation. We introduce the term Pervasive Collaboration which captures complex collaborations at run time as a dynamic set of distributed, loosely coupled, on-demand collaborating systems in decentralized environments. The concept of roles, which aims for loose coupling of abstract functionality and its actual performance, is utilized to ease both composition and reconfiguration of Pervasive Collaborations. We propose a middleware architecture for distributed adaptive role-based software systems which provides a decentralized discovery mechanism, on-demand composition and subsequent adaptation. We will evaluate our concept based on several case studies and failure scenarios as well as in terms of limitations, scalability and trade-off.

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    Colors indicate scope of research: dark blue – in scope, light blue – partial, white – out of scope.

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    We consider a domain specific language as specification. TRoML is a textual modeling language based on [10], which currently does not support loose coupling of roles and players as well as specifying context features.

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This work is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Research Training Group “Role-based Software Infrastructures for continuous-context-sensitive Systems” (GRK 1907).

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Wutzler, M. (2017). Exploring On-Demand Composition of Pervasive Collaborations in Smart Computing Environments. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops. OTM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55961-2_31

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