Applying utility functions to adaptation planning for home automation applications
Date
2009ISBN
978-0-387-84809-9Source
Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society17th International Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD 2008
Pages
529-537Google Scholar check
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A pervasive computing environment typically comprises multiple embedded devices that may interact together and with mobile users. These users are part of the environment, and they experience it through a variety of devices embedded in the environment. This perception involves technologies which may be heterogeneous, pervasive, and dynamic. Due to the highly dynamic properties of such environments, the software systems running on them have to face problems such as user mobility, service failures, or resource and goal changes which may happen in an unpredictable manner. To cope with these problems, such systems must be autonomous and self-managed. In this chapter we deal with a special kind of a ubiquitous environment, a smart home environment, and introduce a user-preferencebased model for adaptation planning. The model, which dynamically forms a set of configuration plans for resources, reasons automatically and autonomously, based on utility functions, on which plan is likely to best achieve the user's goals with respect to resource availability and user needs. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.