TEACHING-Trustworthy autonomous cyber-physical applications through human-centred intelligence
Davide Bacciu, Siranush Akarmazyan, Eric Armengaud, Manlio Bacco, George Bravos, Calogero Calandra, Emanuele Carlini, Antonio Carta, Pietro Cassará, Massimo Coppola, Charalampos Davalas, Patrizio Dazzi, Maria Carmela Degennaro, Daniele Di Sarli, Juergen Dobaj, Claudio Gallicchio, Sylvain Girbal, Alberto Gotta, Riccardo Groppo, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Georg Macher, Daniele Mazzei, Gabriele Mencagli, Dimitrios Michail, Alessio Micheli, Roberta Peroglio, Salvatore Petroni, Rosaria Potenza, Farank Pourdanesh, Christos Sardianos, Konstantinos Tserpes, Fulvio Tagliabò, Jakob Valtl, Iraklis Varlamis, Omar Veledar
Abstract
This paper discusses the perspective of the H2020 TEACHING project on the next generation of autonomous applications running in a distributed and highly heterogeneous environment comprising both virtual and physical resources spanning the edge-cloud continuum. TEACHING puts forward a human-centred vision leveraging the physiological, emotional, and cognitive state of the users as a driver for the adaptation and optimization of the autonomous applications. It does so by building a distributed, embedded and federated learning system complemented by methods and tools to enforce its dependability, security and privacy preservation. The paper discusses the main concepts of the TEACHING approach and singles out the main AI-related research challenges associated with it. Further, we provide a discussion of the design choices for the TEACHING system to tackle the aforementioned challenges