Digital ecosystems and comparison to existing collaboration environment
Elizabeth Chang, Martin West · eSpace (Curtin University) · 2006
Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments from centralised, or distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand-driven interactive environment. A digital ecosystem is new-networked architecture and collaborative environment that addresses the weakness of client-server, peer-to-peer and web services. As it is such a new concept, people often assume that it is a type of multi-agent system, or that it is a computer based economic solution or uses a computer to study the ecological system, etc. In this paper, we will give an overview of digital ecosystems and compare it to existing client-server, peer-to-peer, Grid, web-services environments.