Using multi-agent systems to simulate dynamic infrastructures populated with large numbers of web service enabled devices

Abstract

A common practice in enterprise environments is the usage of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) which implies heavy usage of web services. Lately the trend is to extend these approaches down to the embedded device layer i.e. have devices running web services natively and offer their functionality as a service. The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions millions of such heterogeneous, usually mobile, devices communicating with each other creating a very dynamic infrastructure. In this paper we concentrate on our efforts to use a multi-agent system to simulate this emerging dynamic infrastructure populated with large number of web-service enabled devices.