Research group investigates a new distributed systems paradigm for bringing the flexibility of information technology to bear in every aspect of daily life. It foresees that people will be surrounded by embedded and flexibly networked systems that provide easily accessible yet unobtrusive support for an open-ended range of activities, to enrich daily life and to increase productivity at work.
These distributed systems will be quite different from current computer systems, as they will be based on an unbounded set of hardware artefacts made flexible by software, embedded in everyday objects or realized as new types of device. Cooperation between individual entities is a necessity, because isolated entities may not be able to perform their tasks with sufficient quality or efficiency, or reach the required distributed control objectives. Objects should be seen as encapsulating entities, mixing hardware and software in any proportion and at any level of complexity: an object may thus be as simple as a sensor, or as complex as a portable device, or even an entire car or building, depending on the context.
Research will focus on architectures, algorithms, protocols, systems support, networking, data processing and tools to support timely reactivity and pro-activeness, reconfigurability, real-time adaptation, dependability, and context sensitivity.
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