Responsible Objects: Towards Self-Healing Internet of Things Applications

The Internet of Things paradigm has gained ground both in the industry and in research worlds, and it is considered to revolution the way the physical and virtual worlds are connected by 2025. Fault tolerance, resilience, and self-healing research face new challenges in the Internet of Things context due to its promise of connecting billions of devices in an Internet-like structure. Objects in the Internet of Things must function autonomously, with minimum requirement for human intervention, specially when they are part of complex and critical applications. The goal of this paper is to: (i) motivate and show the relevance of the need of self-healing applications in the Internet of Things, (ii) introduce the responsible objects concept and the requirements for building a responsible object API, and (ii) set future research directions regarding self-healing Internet of Things applications.