Paper Info
Title
A Role-Based Approach for Orchestrating Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is envisioned as a global network of connected things enabling ubiquitous machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. With estimations of billions of sensors and devices to be connected in the coming years, the IoT has been advocated as having a great potential to impact the way we live, but also how we work. However, the connectivity aspect in itself only accounts for the underlying M2M infrastructure. In order to properly support engineering IoT systems and applications, it is key to orchestrate heterogeneous u0027thingsu0027 in a seamless, adaptive and dynamic manner, such that the system can exhibit a goal-directed behaviour and take appropriate actions. Yet, this form of interaction between things needs to take a user-centric approach and by no means elude the usersu0027 requirements. To this end, contextualisation is an important feature of the system, allowing it to infer user activities and prompt the user with relevant information and interactions even in the absence of intentional commands. In this work we propose a role-based model for emergent configurations of connected systems as a means to model, manage, and reason about IoT systems including the useru0027s interaction with them. We put a special focus on integrating the user perspective in order to guide the emergent configurations such that systems goals are aligned with the usersu0027 intentions. We discuss related scientific and technical challenges and provide several uses cases outlining the concept of emergent configurations.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Computers and Society
Data science,Global network,Computer science,Internet of Things,Knowledge management
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1809.09870
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radu-Casian Mihailescu1207.45
Romina Spalazzese214916.90
Clint Heyer321.40
Paul Davidsson431553.19