Scalable Ubiquitous Computing Systems or just Ubiquitous Systems A 15 - year Grand Challenge for computer science

This project is one of a set of three, and the second of two “exemplary” Grand Challenges. The first of these will be an exemplar focused upon one or more specific applications, e.g. “A sentient building” or “Healthcare across a city” and will represent a driving set of requirements. The third project is the “Theory for ubiquitous data and processes” nexus, which underpins the other two. This challenge is to create the required novel architectural structures for scalable ubiquitous computing systems1. It is clear that we lack techniques and algorithms to design and implement information processing artifacts both in the large and the small that have desirable properties associated with other ubiquitous systems (e.g. buildings, food, entertainment) such as safety, low cost, availability and integration. There are clearly strong links with some parts of the strong software engineering grand challenge(s), and with the human computing interaction challenge(s).