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One of the most important challenges of this decade is the Internet of Things (IoT) that pursues the integration of real-world objects in Internet. One of the key areas of the IoT is the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems, which should be able to react to variable and continuous changes while ensuring their acceptance and adoption by users. This means that AAL systems need to work as self-adaptive systems. The autonomy property inherent to software agents, makes them a suitable choice for developing self-adaptive systems. However, agents lack the mechanisms to deal with the variability present in the IoT domain with regard to devices and network technologies. To overcome this limitation we have already proposed a Software Product Line (SPL) process for the development of self-adaptive agents in the IoT. Here we analyze the challenges that poses the development of self-adaptive AAL systems based on agents. To do so, we focus on the domain and application engineering of the self-adaptation concern of our SPL process. In addition, we provide a validation of our development process for AAL systems.
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Ayala, I., Amor, M., Fuentes, L. (2016). Using SPL to Develop AAL Systems Based on Self-adaptive Agents. In: de la Prieta, F., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40159-1_22
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