Venus AUEB Forum

The ultimate aim of SERENITY is to enhance security and dependability for AmI ecosystems by providing a frame-work supporting the automated integration, configuration, monitoring and adaptation of security and dependability mechanisms for such ecosystems.
Providing S&D in AmI ecosystems requires the dynamic application of the expertise of security engineers. SERENITY will capture this expertise and make it available, supported by automated tools, to the AmI ecosystems. The means that will be employed for capturing this expertise will be S&D patterns and integration schemes.

We envisage that this framework will be used by systems that will delegate the implementation and monitoring of security mechanisms and system providers or end-users that need to control their security requirements.

Future Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments will con-tain a large number of heterogeneous computing and com-munication infrastructures and devices providing new func-tionalities, enhance productivity, and facilitate everyday tasks. In the new AmI scenarios, not only systems but also applications will have to make effective use of the resources that are available on-the-fly and adapt to different hardware, software and even firmware configurations.