Welcome
The PAI research group (Pervasive Artificial Intelligence) belongs to the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg and is active in several research fields dealing with design methodologies for distributed systems, namely bio-inspired adaptation and context-aware computing.

At a glance
Since 2002, the group is involved in the design of middleware for tackling the adaptation problems occurring in Pervasive Computing, a methodology using mobile ad hoc network infrastructures and including as well smart environments built upon sensor networks than autonomous robotics. Given the mobility of users and devices in this context, the challenge of this domain is to enable a constant access to information services at any moment and in any place, despite a high degree of heterogeneity of the devices and situations encountered.

Following requirements are the necessity to adapt continously computing facilities to the current situation, for example by a need to discover new resources and Internet services depending on the context, constantly reroute information according to user and devices movements, and by transparent wrapping of the operations and data manipulated by the user in order to constantly adapt them to the available devices.

Ongoing projects

Bio-inspired computing