CReMe: a Dynamic and Flexible Conflict Resolution Methodology for Competitive Ambient Systems

Ambient Systems are available to their users all the time and everywhere. Most of them can be viewed as collective applications, i.e., shared by two or more users, which may lead to competition for resources and personal needs, generating conflicts of interests. The goal of this work is to present CReMe, a dynamic and flexible methodology to detect and solve conflicts for ambient systems. Two distinct case studies were evaluated to demonstrate CReMe's characteristics. The results showed that it was possible to accomplish a tradeoff between computational resources consumption and users’ satisfaction.