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PERSIST
Abstract
Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the
problem of isolated smart spaces (such as smart homes) via a fixed
infrastructure. This is likely to lead to the evolution of islands of
pervasiveness separated by voids in which there is no support for pervasiveness.
The vision of PERSIST is of a Personal Smart Space, which is associated with the
portable devices carried by the user and which moves around with him/her,
providing context-aware pervasiveness to the user at all times and places. The
Personal Smart Space will cater for the needs of users, adapting to their
preferences and learning new ones as these arise.
The objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a
minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users
encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be
capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and
context. They will be endowed with pro-active behaviours, which enable them to
share context information with neighbouring Personal Smart Spaces, resolve
conflicts between the preferences of multiple users, make recommendations and
act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited resources between users,
services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy and be
sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their own robustness and dependability.
Info Brochure / Fact Sheet
If you are interested in any of this information please inform
the coordinator Kevin Doolin
kdoolin @ tssg.org
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