Nature-Inspired Self Organizing Service Oriented Architecture : A Proposal

• Main Authors: M.A.C., Bhakti, Azween, Abdullah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/732/1/CITA09-FullPaper-ID-115agni.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/732/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Implementation of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) brings about challenges which include service discovery, service interaction, service composition, robustness, Quality of Service, security, etc. These challenges are mainly due to the dynamic nature of SOA. SOA may often to dynamically organizing and reorganizing its topologies of interactions between the services. The dynamic characteristic of SOA is quite similar with the characteristic of self-organizing system, in the way that they are able to organize elements (services in the case of SOA) in order to change their functions or create new functions on higher levels (emergence). Therefore, we believe that the dynamic nature of SOA can benefit from the use of selforganization primitives found in nature. We propose to investigate how we can adapt self-organizing systems and mechanisms found in nature used to ensure robust SOA. This will be achieved by mapping biological / nature-inspired self-organizing algorithms and models into service-oriented architecture.