The Bio-inspired Service Life-Cycle: An Overview

The increase in mobility and heterogeneity of networked devices raised the need for autonomous service oriented computing environments promising a significant reduction in development and management complexity. Current services underlie a traditional service life cycle, leaving little room for autonomous service behavior, causing that service autonomy is commonly realized through rule-based adaptation mechanisms. Within this paper, a biologically inspired life-cycle is proposed, enabling service evolution in addition to service adaptation. This concept is then extended to the services´ design phase, providing the autonomous creation and transformation of services in order to respond to changes in the user´s requirements or surrounding and the ability to generate new functionalities potentially not yet requested by to the user.