Introducing Life Management Platforms and Collaborative Service Fusion to Contextual Environments

Abstract

The approach presented in this position paper aims at collaborative service fusion and provisioning in user-centric environments in the future Internet of People, Things, and Services (IoPTS). Our approach connects dynamic gathering of user requirements and feedback with community based service fusion in any phase of a service life cycle. These highly adaptive services allow agile service creation and exploitation embedding the users by fusing his or her cloud based daily activities within intelligent environments. We propose two fundamental new building blocks: On the one hand a life management platform in our approach empowers users to manage service fusions, profiles, and access policies in a secure, trustworthy and unified way increasing their independency, privacy and possibilities to manage lives after personal priorities by personalized information flow. On the other hand the introduction of a service fusion engine supports automated access to personal consumer data and requirements for specifically authorized services and market places. Note: We think that with respect to recent discussions on profiling citizens and consumers user control and consent need to be re-balanced. As such the proposed life management platform is supposed to enable users to manage personally identifiable information. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.