Mobile event-oriented digital ecosystem

The Digital Ecosystem (DE) paradigm is a holistic management/design/integration approach that is based on the notion of self-interested, self-managing, proactive and autonomous digital entities that evolve and self-organize. This in turn leads to the emergence of complex, self-organizing behaviours within a DE due to the evolving and highly dynamic interactions of its members. These interactions are however strongly influenced by the IT environment in which the DE is situated. Interestingly, our IT environments are currently undergoing a major transformation due to the declining importance of the desktop computing model. As smartphones and tablets begin to replace the desktop as the primary means of interacting with IT resources, our IT infrastructures are adapted to serve the increasing numbers of resource-constrained, wirelessly connected mobile devices that interact with backend components hosted in a cloud. These changes of the IT environment have also a major impact on the way Digital Ecosystems can be designed and how they operate. This paper focusses on the communication challenges of mobile digital ecosystems and presents an event-oriented form of communication that ensures high-scalability and loose coupling.