Considering Side Effects in Service Interactions in Home Automation - An Online Approach
Michael Wilson, Mario Kolberg, Evan H. Magill · Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) · 2007
Abstract. The feature or service interaction problem within home net-works is an established topic for the FI community. Interactions between home appliances, services and their environment have been reported pre-viously. Indeed earlier work by the authors introduced a device centric approach which detects undesirable behaviour between appliances and their effects on the environment. However this previous work did not address side-effects between compo-nents of the modelled environment. That is some appliances do not only affect the environment through their main function, but may do so also in other ways. For instance, an air conditioner cools the air as its main function, but also decreases the humidity as a side-effect. Here we extend our earlier approach to handle such side effects effectively and discuss previously unreported results. 1