A Framework for developing Teamwork Enabled Services in Smart City Domains

Abstract

Services that collaborate alongside other services or systems for performing tasks, need to be aware of either predetermined or other abrupt and unexpected behaviors in other to adapt theirs. The service behaviors we consider are performed in smart city domains which are dynamic environments where continuously new services appear, that usually have a large variation in the way they perform the same task. We use roles having teamwork behavior to represent the composition procedure in such domains, and we model the team of services through the individual behavior of each participant as well as their group goal. In this paper, we present a framework, which consists of the approach and IT system in order to serve the choreography between a large number of heterogeneous services so as to achieve a seamless and cooperative environment suitable for a smart city. This enables composite city services to adapt their behavior during execution and themselves intervene from inside the team if a possible unexpected behavior happens during the service activity, in order to run proactively and avoid obstacles or collisions. A scenario from a smart city domain illustrates that, services having different teamwork abilities are composed to a new one which inherits teamwork features and combines them to something novel. © 2021 ACM.