Current Developments and Future Challenges of Coordination in Pervasive Environments

With the miniaturization of computing elements, their in- creasing number, interconnection, and penetration of our daily lives, pervasive computing environments start to be- come more and more complex. This results in an apparent claim for improved coordination mechanisms, to optimize, to enhance effectiveness and eventually to provide the users with a sufficient level of quality. We took this as our mo- tivation to investigate the concept of coordination applied to pervasive environments in more details. This report is the summary of the CoMA workshop held at IEEE WET- ICE 2007 and highlights the current research efforts and outlines potential future challenges with respect to coordi- nation in pervasive environments