A biologically-inspired basis of e-business software: from cellular level to ecological level

From the notion that a particular e-business software running on the Internet is considered as a living species, we investigate the anatomical, metabolic, physiological, genetic and ecological basis of e-business software. We suggest that there is an automated e-business software continuum, from bit and cellular level to ecological level, which is parallel to the natural bio-ecology from particles to ecosystems and beyond. This parallelism between bio-ecology and e-commerce/e-business gives rise to interesting research venues from which we might gain insights from bio-ecological information technology for potential applicability to the normal e-business/ecommerce, its continuity and crisis.