Police Interventions as a Context-aware System. A Case of a Contextual Data Modelling

Smart systems which operate in Intelligent Environments (IE) are complex. They analyse the large volumes of various contextual data on-line and often in real time to obtain, autonomously and reliably, the required pro-activeness of a system which operates pervasively. We proposed both a development framework for context-aware systems and a context-based decision making scheme for the system of managing police interventions, focusing on providing support for police patrols in life threatening situations. This system, owing to the symultaneous collection of rich contextual information from many police officers, which constitute the mobile network, as well as the complex processes of contextual reasoning, takes automatic decisions on supporting officers in emergency. We implemented the initial, yet not trivial, simulations of the system behaviour within the whole city. The results obtained prove the feasibility of the framework

How to agentify the Internet-of-Things?

International audienceDespite the smooth weaving of the Internet-of-Things into people's daily lives, many challenges, such as diversity and multiplicity of things' development technologies and communication standards, and users' reluctance due to privacy invasion, are slowing down this weaving. This paper tackles the challenge of things' passive nature that has confined them into a data-supplier role. Empowering things with additional capabilities would make them proactive so, that, they can for instance, reach out to peers exposing collaborative attitude and (un)form dynamic communities when necessary. In this paper, this empowerment takes shape through thing agentification that relies on norms (specialized into business and social) to regulate the operations of things and commitments to ensure thing compliance with these norms. No-compliance would lead to sanctions over things, which should affect their credibility and reputation. A proof-of-concept and missing-child case study technically illustrate thing agentification