An Architectural Model Framework to Improve Digital Ecosystems Interoperability

For the last two decades, software architecture has been adopted as one of the main viable solutions to address the ever-increasing demands in the design and development of complex software systems. Nevertheless, the rapidly growing utilization of communication networks and interconnections among software systems have introduced some critical challenges, which need to be handled in order to fully unleash the potential of these systems. In this respect, digital ecosystems, generally considered as a distributed adaptive open socio-technical system, have gained considerable attention, since their scale is incomparable to the traditional systems. The scale of socio-technical ecosystems makes drastic changes in various aspects of system development. As a result, it requires that we broaden our understanding of software architectures and the ways we structure them. In this paper, we investigate the lack of an architectural model framework for digital ecosystems interoperability, and propose an architectural model framework to improve digital ecosystems interoperability based on complex system theory.