Intelligent infrastructures - the first step towards next generation infrastructure systems

The intelligent infrastructures research program aims at developing theory and applications concerning novel modes for control and management of the utilization of existing infrastructures. The development of the next generation infrastructures that creates more inherent flexibility will take up a lot of time. Therefore, on the shorter-term the challenge is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing infrastructure by new modes of operation. We propose to develop a formal framework for modeling and control of infrastructures containing multiple subsystems (more or less autonomous intelligent agents) with different goals in relation to the desired overall behavior of the total system and with different operation regimes.