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Towards creation of a reference architecture for trust-based digital ecosystems

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Emilia Cioroaica,

Stanislav Chren,

Barbora Buhnova,

Dimitar DimitrovAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '19: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2

Pages 273 - 276

https://doi.org/10.1145/3344948.3344973

Published: 09 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

With progressing digitalization and the trend towards autonomous computing, systems tend to form digital ecosystems, where each autonomous system aims at achieving its own goals.

Within a highway ecosystem, for example, autonomous vehicles could deploy smart agents in the form of software applications. This would enable cooperative driving and ultimately formation of vehicle platoons that reduce air friction and fuel consumption. In the smart grid domain, software-defined virtual power plants could be established to enable remote and autonomous collaboration of various units, such as smart meters, data concentrators, and distributed energy resources, in order to optimize power generation, demand-side energy and power storage. Effective collaboration within these emerging digital ecosystems strongly relies on the assumption that all components of the ecosystem operate as expected, and a level of trust among them is established based on that.

In this paper, we present the idea of trust-based digital ecosystems, built upon the concept of a digital twin of this ecosystem, as a machine readable representation of the system and a representation of goals and trust at runtime. This creates demand for introducing a reference architecture for trust-based digital ecosystems that would capture their main concepts and relationships. By modeling the goals of the actors and systems, a reference architecture can provide a basis for analyzing competitive forces that influence the health of an ecosystem.

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ECSA '19: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture - Volume 2

September 2019

286 pages

ISBN:9781450371421

DOI:10.1145/3344948

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Laurence Duchien
University of Lille, France
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Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Italy
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Riccardo Scandariato
Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Raffaela Mirandola
Polytecnico di Milano, Italy
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Elena Maria Navarro Martinez
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Danny Weyns
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Anne Koziolek
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Patrizia Scandurra
University of Bergamo, Italy
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University of Lille, France

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