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In the computer science community there is a growing interest in the field of Ambient Intelligent Systems. This systems surround their human users with computing and networking technology unobtrusively embedded in their environment. This technology is aimed to provide the users with useful information and to take action to make the environment more convenient for them. As the number of users increases the resources that make Ambient Intelligence possible can be easily saturated making the system unstable and projecting an image of poor QoS to the users. The main goal of this paper is to provide the means for the Ambient Intelligent Systems to monitor themselves and take corrective action automatically if performance starts to drop. Our approach uses a Performance Ontology that structures the knowledge about Software Performance Engineering, and a reasoning engine that acts like an expert system with the Performance Ontology as its foundation. The case study at the end shows the applicability of the developed techniques.
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The authors acknowledge the partial financial support of this research through the programme Accions especials del Govern de les Illes Balears from Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovació.
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Lera, I., Sancho, P.P., Juiz, C. et al. Performance assessment of intelligent distributed systems through software performance ontology engineering (SPOE). Software Qual J 15, 53–67 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-006-9004-1
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