Architecture for decision support system to recommend service bundles regulated by context-aware smart-contracts

The emergence of the concept of smart contracts provides great opportunities to automatize the performance of contractual relations and make it reliable. In the product configuration domain, the smart contract development is an independent task that is not related to the development of a product usage of which the smart contract regulates. A conceptual framework combining ontology-based product configuration to create service bundles with semantic rules formalizing smart contracts to regulate the automated service provisioning/consumption closes the gap between the product development and its contractual use. The contribution of the present paper is architecture for a decision support system to be built according to the conceptual framework. An application scenario from the domain of providing Internet services illustrates interactions between the architectural components.