Influence of ubiquitous computing on organizational structure

The changeover of client-server to distributed embedded systems, discussed in the area of ubiquitous computing (UC), entails a large automated processing of tasks due to the fact that the user cannot interact with each application in an explicit way. This technical situation gives cause to consider the repercussions of technology on organisational forms. On the basis of scheduling processes in hospital, the EMIKA project shows the automatability of scheduling under the computing paradigm of self-organization.