Proactivity and situation-awareness

Three simultaneously on-going and interacting threads are studied - proactive modelling, technology platforms and tools, and pilot applications and assessment methods. The emergent behaviour in proactive systems and their relationship to complex systems theory are of special interest. Research in proactive modelling focuses on models of situation-aware interactive computing, emergent behaviour in enterprises and organisations, self-learning and adaptation methods in control systems, and nano-components. Research on technology and tools covers agent-based and smart dust technologies, plus tools and methods for interface technologies for exchanging situational information. Pilot applications and study of methods for their assessment are divided into three parts - cases applying MATLAB/Simulink models, cases applying real world environment and physical devices, and preparatory work on set-up of verification studies.