Self-Aware Pervasive Servive Ecosystems

The SAPERE project has developed a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios. The SAPERE framework has been grounded on a foundational re-thinking of current service models and of associated infrastructures and algorithms. In particular, getting inspiration from natural ecosystems, the project experiments the possibility of modelling and deploying services as autonomous individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and pervasive devices, and of enforcing self-awareness and autonomic behaviours as inherent properties of the ecosystem, rather than as peculiar characteristics of its individuals only. The effectiveness of the proposed solutions and of the overall SAPERE framework is being evaluated in selected use cases in the area of "adaptive and decentralized pervasive services", such as the Vienne City Marathon 2013. The project is actually carried on by a consortium with complementary competences, will last until September 2013, and will touch prominently but not exclusively the "Creating awareness" topic of the "Self-awareness in autonomic systems" call.