PerAda Session on the Key Challenges of Pervasive Adaptation

PerAda was present in many forms at the FET Conference in Prague in April 2009 including holding a session on some key challenges for Pervasive Adaptation which looked at the difficulties of designing scalable and context-aware systems; how to incorporate trust, cooperation and other human-like behaviours into pervasive systems and the potential danger of runaway self-organisation as systems could end up adapting to everything rather than particular user-specified requirements.

The REFLECT and SYMBRION projects also held sessions, with reflective technology demonstrating how users’ emotions, intentions and personalised context are managed in a bio-cybernetic loop and with SYMBRION researchers explaining about collective robotics, a new research field where a large number of simple robots can collectively and adaptively solve complex problems.

FRONTS, ATRACO, REFLECT and SYMBRION were all represented at the Exhibition and SOCIALNETS participated in the poster session with “Harnessing adaptive human social structures for tomorrow’s wireless networks”.

Also see

The 6 PerAda Projects
PerAda Resources