Transfer Learning is a Crucial Capability of Intelligent Systems Self-Integrating at Runtime

The claim of this position paper is that Self-Improving and Self-Integrating Systems (SISSY) should be designed in view of facilitating Transfer Learning (TL) in order to leverage the given opportunity of collaborative knowledge acquisition and sharing. We corroborate our claim by briefly introducing the field of TL and bridging the gap to the recent research initiative of SISSY. Furthermore, an exemplifying scenario that allows such intelligently acting systems interweaving at runtime to be recognized as an obvious candidate with a strong demand for incorporating TL techniques is outlined.