Towards more context-awareness in reactive digital ecosystems

Abstract

Ecosystems are open adaptive systems with self-organizing properties; they are based on a local interaction of the composing elements and generating a general end-result. Digital ecosystems incorporate these features in context-aware applications that work together for the efficient solving of complex dynamic problems. This article considers the digital ecosystems as being open-system of applications with a certain degree of context-awareness. It also presents Econtxt a programming model for the context used by context-aware applications running in digital ecosystems. An implementation of the proposed context model is presented and analysed in the final part of the article.