Publications

@article{sabatucci_model_2023,

title = {A model for automatic selection of IoT services in ambient assisted living for the elderly},

author = {Luca Sabatucci and Massimo Cossentino and Claudia Di Napoli and Angelo Susi},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Pervasive and Mobile Computing},

volume = {95},

abstract = {Context: Engineering Ambient Assisted Living applications for the elderly is challenging due 

to the diversity and rapid changes of both end users’ needs and technological environment 

equipment. 

Objective: Assistive applications can be provided as combinations of functionalities provided by 

IoT devices. With the pervasive availability of functionally equivalent IoT devices, they should 

be selected according to the specific deployment context in terms of user needs and conditions, 

device availability, and regulations when the operative context dynamic conditions can be set. 

Such selection is the objective of this work. 

Methods: We rely on a conceptual framework for self-adaptation as the enabler for a run- 

time decision-making process. It allows for representing relations among IoT devices, the 

functionalities they deliver, and the different modalities these functionalities are provided with 

in terms of goals, devices, and norms. The framework is based on three fundamental principles: 

(1) high-level abstractions separating the expected functionality, how it can be delivered, and 

who is responsible for its delivery; (2) AAL applications as the run-time composition of atomic 

functionalities; (3) centrality of the user in the system. 

Result: The Device-Goal-Norm framework is proposed to specify diagrams for different AAL 

applications, together with the semantics to transform these diagrams into run-time models. We 

also provide a running implementation of a run-time model based on the belief–desire–intention 

paradigm.},

keywords = {AAL for the Elderly, Model at run-time, Reasoning},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}