Editorial

摘要

Our journal starts its second year of production, and provides a forum for a new community which is interested in creating more reliable Intelligent Environments. This is a concern which, to some extent, all those working in the area are sooner or later faced with. Still, the new components of this family of systems make less obvious the safer strategies to follow when designing, building and deploying Intelligent Environments. Our community has to adapt previously existing methodologies and tools and create new ones; we have to also seek inspiration in new related areas and keep our minds flexible to find inspiration which may arrive from other communities. The three scientific contributions we present in this issue reflect this initial search we have embarked on and represent interesting examples of different pieces (or dimensions) of the complex puzzle we are called to build. The first article exploits evolutionary algorithms to face a practical problem one has to face when setting up a real (intelligent) environment. The second paper deals with the need of designing quality attributes such as resiliency, which are becoming intrinsic, non-functional, characteristics required for whatever intelligent environment. The third article, instead, explores new dimensions for reliable systems represented by mathematical and theoretical properties such as antifragility.