Managing behavior of intelligent environments

It has become increasingly important to support agile organizations with easily re-configurable work environments. This paper describes an on-going work on a platform for managing behavior of intelligent environments. The platform promotes the development of futuristic workspaces that support people´s work practices in an unobtrusive, context-aware, and personalized manner. The platform accommodates individual preferences and organizational policies in a way that allows rapid and impromptu customizations. There are several advantages to this, in particular, the ability to represent users´ preferences about their work environments separately from the actual configurations of the physical spaces they occupy at a given time, thus supporting emerging workplace needs such as hoteling and impromptu group settings.