Title
On Autonomous Dynamic Software Ecosystems
Abstract
Software ecosystems are considered the natural evolution of software product lines. A software ecosystem provides a (software) product within a particular business and organizational context that supports the exchange of activities and services within a domain. However, the increasing degree of autonomy demanded by software ecosystems is elevating the system response to end users, while the existing software ecosystem architectures are not well prepared to deal with the dynamicity of context changes and autonomous behavior needs. In order to provide a transition toward an increased level of autonomy, in this article, we introduce the notion of autonomous dynamic ecosystems as representative of those software ecosystems able to support dynamic, smart, and autonomous features demanded by modern software systems. In this work, we further investigate and provide evidence of four industrial examples that have fully embodied the principles of autonomous dynamic ecosystems, and we characterize the main features and technology requirements of this kind of new ecosystems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TEM.2021.3116873
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Autonomy,collaborative aspects,dynamic ecosystems,smart behavior,software ecosystems,software product lines,trust
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0018-9391
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
29
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Capilla100.34
Emilia Cioroaica253.93
Barbora Buhnova300.34
Jan Bosch480788.13