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Digital ecosystems are considered socio-technical clusters of adaptive applications with different levels of context awareness, adaptability, and autonomy. Applications from a digital ecosystem must solve concrete problems but have to be computationally efficient, it will have to find a balance between the freedom of a system to self-adapt and the constraints that apply to obtain a correct functionality. A new model of context is necessary to facilitate the development of adaptive applications that evolve with the...

Digital ecosystems represent a new technology capable of interconnecting heterogeneous, cross-domain platforms, able to drive innovation in different industries, enabling us to connect and operate with a wide range of actors, customers, partners, companies. Digital ecosystems can be considered as socio-technical clusters of adaptive applications with different levels of context awareness, adaptability and autonomicity. The adaptive properties of an organism are closely related to the self-organizing property and t...

Ecosystems are open adaptive systems with self-organizing properties; they are based on local interaction of the composing elements and generating a general end-result. Digital ecosystems incorporate these features in context-aware applications that work together for the efficient solving of complex dynamic problems. This article considers the digital ecosystems as being open-system of applications with a certain degree of context-awareness. It also presents Econtxt a programming model for the context used by cont...