Levels of Adaptation and Control

摘要

To realise the vision of ubiquitous computing, we need to control heterogeneous and dynamically changing device ensembles, that is software components distributed over different devices encapsulating hardware functions or services. The resulting control systems must be real-time capable and able to describe their actions. Here we propose a layered architecture, which is currently under development. It is based on a probabilistic model providing the real-time assistance functions, and on symbolic descriptions. These description can be used (a) to syn-thesise the probabilistic model, and (b) to explain the resulting actions taken by the controller.