Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

ManageYourSelf is a project that deals with the diagnosis and monitoring of embedded platforms, in the framework of a collaboration with Telelogos, a French company expert in mobile management and data synchronization. ManageYourSelf aims to perform diagnostic and repair on a fleet of mobile smartphones and PDAs. The idea is to embed on the mobile devices a rule-based expert system and its set of politics, for example "if memory full 'then delete (directory). recognition is performed, using the parameters of the phones as the fact base. Of course, it is impossible to foresee all the rules in advance. Upon detection of a non anticipated problem, a report containing all the system's information prior to the problem is sent to a server. The learning step was first implemented using decision trees, the aim being to characterize the faults and consequently update the global knowledge base and its distributed instances. An incremental version of this learning step has been studied in order to get an on-line process [36] . This means being able to learn new faults characterizations and add new preventive rules, and also forget no longer needed ones.