Requirements and Concepts for Information Assurance and Pervasive Adaptation Co-design

This paper builds on the authors´ work on security challenges in the more general pervasive domain and considers what demands the adaptive paradigm will make of the information assurance community, and conversely, what information-assurance concerns should inform the realisation of pervasive adaptation. We propose a set of concepts which would enable these concerns to be addressed should they be adopted within the pervasive adaptation community. Our purpose is to begin a consultation and debate within the community to understand what may or may not be reasonable and what else might be possible..