Cognitive Architecture Configuration Model for Performing Dynamic Pervasive Service Composition

Abstract

With the breakthroughs in capabilities of mobile and embedded devices which allows them to become part of our everyday lives, and the subsequent advent of fields such as Internet of Things, Smart Cities and Ambient Intelligence, the process of exploiting individual device functionalities to create complex services, known as service composition, gains more traction. However, to perform service composition in such dynamic environments, where availability of resources is far from uncertain, there are many challenges that must be overcome. The way the human brain works allows it to configure itself to perform specific tasks, just like a service composition arranges a set of services to achieve a goal, and is capable to adapt to changes in its environment, providing us with a great degree of resilience, something very valuable for dealing with dynamic environments. In this work, we propose a model whereby the various modules of the Cuāyōllōtl Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (BICA), which will be in charge of managing the different devices of a pervasive system, are to be configured to create a workflow that employs only the required modules to achieve an objective, in a similar fashion to how conventional service composition approaches produce composite services.