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Towards Intelligent Ensembles

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Zbynek JiracekAuthors Info & Claims

ECSAW '15: Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

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Recently, several ensemble-based component models have been created to address the dynamicity and complexity of designing cyber-physical systems. Experience in applying these models to actual case studies has shown that there are still scenarios in distributed organization that are hard to capture by utilizing only the concepts of these component models. In this paper, we present a summary of issues encountered, based on the analysis of selected case studies. We propose new concepts that build on those contained in ensemble-based models. In particular, we introduce the ideas of ensemble nesting, dynamic role cardinalities and ensemble fitness. These concepts and their support in the runtime framework aim at serving as a bridge between high-level ensemble formation rules and low-level decentralized implementation. These concepts are illustrated on one of the case studies, demonstrating a domain specific language based on that used in the DEECo component model.

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Towards Intelligent Ensembles
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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ECSAW '15: Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

September 2015

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ISBN:9781450333931

DOI:10.1145/2797433

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Wutzler MSpringer TSchill AHaddad HWainwright RChbeir R(2018)Coordinated composition of continuous service collaborations in decentralized smart computing environmentsProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3167132.3167145(226-233)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2018
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