Track A: foundations of digital ecosystems and complex environment engineering

Track A addresses the foundations of Digital Ecosystems in the context of Complex Environments Engineering. A digital ecosystem is defined as an open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, domain clustered, agent-based, self-organized environment where species/agents form short and long-term coalitions for specific purposes or goals, and everyone is proactive and responsive for its own benefit or profit. Interactions among peers in Digital Ecosystems may involve, besides unbridled competition, new modalities of pre-competitive and collaborative partnerships. Digital ecosystems are characterized by complexity — demanding radically new solutions.