Emerging and adaptive fuzzy logic based behaviours in activity sphere centred ambient ecologies

In order for Ambient Ecologies (AEs) to provide a viable and functional service to people in their day-to-day lives, it is paramount for the AEs to autonomously learn and adapt to the requirements of the human users living in their everyday environments which are populated with a large number of potentially heterogeneous artefacts/devices (different manufacturers, different descriptions of properties, etc.). In this paper, we will propose the concept of emerging and adaptive fuzzy logic based behaviours which are based on dynamically created activity spheres. We will provide details both on the conceptual notions behind this approach as well as the detailed results from a real world deployment of our proposed system. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.