Introduction

The vision of Ambient Intelligence is based on the increasing technological advances in embedding computational power, information and sensing capabilities into everyday objects and environments. Despite the current availability of technology, there is a notorious absence of large scale settings. This absence raises questions about the complexity and effort required with current approaches to building intelligent living and working spaces. Future ambient intelligent infrastructures must be able to configure themselves and grow from the available, purposeful objects (be it software services or consumer appliances) in order to become effective in the real world.

The use of embedded systems to control devices, tools and appliances has been common practice for almost two decades now. With every new generation, these controllers provide an ever increasing list of capabilities in the form of assistance, information, and customization. However, it is the addition of communications capabilities that changes the perspectives of what such systems can do: gather information from other sensors, devices and computers on the network, or enable user-oriented customization and operations through short-range communication. This combination of capabilities brings what we call Smart Products.

Call For Papers

Goals and Scope

The fundamental questions in this workshop are how Smart Products can be composed, and how such assemblies can reify agentive behavior and combine functionality to become the generative blocks of ambient intelligence. Another aspect of importance is what kind of interfaces, business models and usage scenarios Smart Products will create, address and modify.
The research areas involved are many, including Product Engineering, Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction, Economics, Artificial Intelligence, and many more. We look forward in this workshop to bring together different areas of expertise to help us shape a vision of creating living and working environments out of Smart Products.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Design of Smart Products
• AI planning for service composition
• Semantic-based discovery
• Dynamic adaptation of products
• Design of user-centered ambient computing
• Smart Product federations
• Smart Artifacts in Manufacturing
• End-User service composition
• Interactive communication with Smart Products
• Development of ubiquitous computing applications
• Dynamic adaptation of products
• Semantic representations for Smart Products
• Infrastructure for Smart Products
• Application cases throughout the whole product lifecycle: assembly, vending,
• maintenance, end-user operation.

Organization

Organizing Committee

• Fernando Lyardet, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
• Erwin Aitenbichler, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Program Committee (confirmed)

• Michael Beigl, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
• Elgar Fleisch, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Sylvain Giroux, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• Stefan Haller, SAP Research (St. Gallen), Switzerland
• Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
• Tomas Herndl, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria
• Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
• Thomas Odenwald, SAP Research (Palo Alto), USA
• Karnouskos Stamatis, SAP Research (Karlsruhe), Germany
• Martin Strohbach, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
• Frédéric Thiesse, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Simon Vogl, Research Studios Austria, Austria
• Harald Vogt, SAP Research (Karlsruhe), Germany