A proposal of an open ubiquitous fuzzy computing system for Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is considered as the composition of three emergent technologies: Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Communication and Intelligent User Interfaces. The aim of integration of aforesaid technologies is to make wider the interaction between human beings and information technology equipment through the usage of an invisible network of ubiquitous computing devices composing dynamic computational-ecosystems capable of satisfying the users' requirements. Many works focus the attention on the interaction from users to devices in order to allow an universal and immediate access to available content and services provided by the environment. This paper, vice versa, focuses on the reverse interactions, from devices to users, in order to realize a collection of autonomous control services able to minimize the human effort. In particular, thanks to a hybrid approach based on Computational Intelligence methodologies and standard Semantic Web technologies, we will describe how ubiquitous devices are able to find the suitable set of 'intelligent' services in a transparent way. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.