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

Pervasive Adaptation Overview

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. The following research areas are of interest:

• Evolve-able and adaptive pervasive systems, able to permanently adjust, self-manage, evolve and self-organise in order to robustly respond to dynamically changing environments, operating conditions, and purposes or practices of use.
• Networked societies of artefacts that adapt to each other and to changing needs, collectively harness dispersed information and pursue immediate or long-term goals for context-sensitive service delivery in rapidly changing and technology-rich environments.
• Adaptive security and dependability: theories, techniques and architectures, able to cope with the volatile landscape of risks, threats, attacks and context dependent user expectations for privacy and security in evolving and heterogeneous pervasive systems.
• Dynamicity of trust: capabilities for establishing trust relationships between humans and/or machines that jointly act and interact within ad-hoc and changing configurations.
• Security for tiny and massively networked devices: efficient, robust and scalable cryptographic protocols, algorithms and other security and privacy mechanisms, including hardware-based ones, as well as collective, biologically or socially inspired ones.

Also see:

PerAda Consortium and Advisory Board Members