Pervasive adaptation

Pervasive Adaptation is concerned with technologies used in information and communication systems which are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic user contexts. The development of future systems will increasingly require collaborative systems, involving complex interactions between people, intelligent objects and computers. The real challenge will be the constantly changing networked environment that can no longer be centrally controlled, or even completely understood, by the developer or user. To be successful especially in such highly dynamic environments, systems will have to adapt themselves, taking into account the emergent behaviour of the system.

Research

Research into Pervasive Adaptation is coordinated by PerAda - the Pervasive Adaptation Research Network and is funded by the European Community FET (Future and Emerging Technology) Proactive Initiative on Pervasive Adaptation.

There are currently 6 PerAda research projects:

• ALLOW - Adaptable Pervasive Flows
  • Developing a new programming paradigm for human-oriented pervasive applications.
• ATRACO - Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies
  • Contributing to the realization of trusted ambient ecologies.
• FRONTS - Foundations of Adaptive Networked Societies of Tiny Artefacts
  • Establishing the foundations of adaptive networked societies of small heterogeneous artifacts.
• REFLECT - Responsive Flexible Collaborating Ambient
  • Developing new concepts and means for “pervasive-adaptive systems”.
• SOCIALNETS - Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation
  • Harnessing adaptive human social structures for tomorrow’s wireless networks.
• SYMBRION - Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms
  • A platform for exploring artificial evolution and pervasive evolve-ability.

See also

• Pervasive computing
• Adaptive
• Adaptive hypermedia
• Ambient intelligence