Synergizing Monetization, Orchestration, and Semantics in Computing Continuum

2025-12-09

AI Summary

Industrial ultra-distributed applications—e.g., smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and precision agriculture—face critical bottlenecks in cloud-edge-end continuum environments, including poor scalability, cross-domain interoperability challenges, and absence of trust mechanisms. To address these, this work proposes HERMES, a novel framework that uniquely integrates resource monetization, intelligent orchestration, and semantic interoperability to establish an open, secure, and decentralized computing continuum architecture. Its core innovations comprise: (1) distributed heterogeneous resource co-scheduling; (2) a blockchain-enabled data marketplace; (3) a lightweight semantic knowledge graph; and (4) a cross-layer zero-trust security mechanism. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that HERMES significantly improves resource utilization, trustworthy data sharing, and cross-domain collaboration efficiency. It enables autonomous operation and semantic interoperability for ultra-distributed applications, thereby establishing a scalable, verifiable, and interoperable infrastructure paradigm for industrial edge intelligence.

Technology Category

• Data Mining & Knowledge Management: Scalability, Parallel & Distributed Systems
• Application Domains: Internet of Things, Sensor Networks & Smart Cities
• Machine Learning: Learning on the Edge & Model Compression

Application Category

• Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Federated Web and WoT systems, including distributed, federated and edge-based data processing
• Economics, Online Markets and Human Computation: Incentives in network design for Web infrastructures and ecosystems
• Semantics and Knowledge: Provenance, trust, security and privacy, and ethical issues in managing semantic data

Abstract

Industry demands are growing for hyper-distributed applications that span from the cloud to the edge in domains such as smart manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture. Yet today's solutions struggle to meet these demands due to inherent limitations in scalability, interoperability, and trust. In this article, we introduce HERMES (Heterogeneous Computing Continuum with Resource Monetization, Orchestration, and Semantic) - a novel framework designed to transform connectivity and data utilization across the computing continuum. HERMES establishes an open, seamless, and secure environment where resources, from cloud servers to tiny edge devices, can be orchestrated intelligently, data and services can be monetized in a distributed marketplace, and knowledge is shared through semantic interoperability. By bridging these key facets, HERMES lays a foundation for a new generation of distributed applications that are more efficient, trustworthy, and autonomous.

Problem

• Addresses scalability, interoperability, and trust limitations in hyper-distributed applications
• Introduces a framework to orchestrate resources across cloud to edge devices
• Enables monetization and semantic knowledge sharing in a distributed marketplace

Innovation

• HERMES framework orchestrates cloud-to-edge resources intelligently
• Monetizes data and services via a distributed marketplace
• Enables semantic interoperability for knowledge sharing