Cognitively-inspired Agent-based Service Composition for Mobile & Pervasive Computing
This addresses service composition challenges for mobile and pervasive computing systems, though it appears incremental by building on existing agent-based and bounded rationality concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of automatic service composition in mobile and pervasive computing by developing a cognitively-inspired agent-based model focused on bounded rationality rather than optimality, showing promising results compared to state-of-the-art models.
Automatic service composition in mobile and pervasive computing faces many challenges due to the complex and highly dynamic nature of the environment. Common approaches consider service composition as a decision problem whose solution is usually addressed from optimization perspectives which are not feasible in practice due to the intractability of the problem, limited computational resources of smart devices, service host's mobility, and time constraints to tailor composition plans. Thus, our main contribution is the development of a cognitively-inspired agent-based service composition model focused on bounded rationality rather than optimality, which allows the system to compensate for limited resources by selectively filtering out continuous streams of data. Our approach exhibits features such as distributedness, modularity, emergent global functionality, and robustness, which endow it with capabilities to perform decentralized service composition by orchestrating manifold service providers and conflicting goals from multiple users. The evaluation of our approach shows promising results when compared against state-of-the-art service composition models.