Hybrid adaptive systems

Adaptive systems based on information technologies (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have become ubiquitous in almost all areas of our private and business lives. Think of social media feeds that adjust their content to our behavior or robo-advisors that adapt their buying behavior according to the stock market and our financial preferences. Similarly, fitness, lifestyle, and healthcare apps continuously track humans to monitor and assess personal fitness, nutrition, and health status in order to adapt context-specific recommendations (Alawneh et al. 2023; Noorbergen et al. 2019). Adaptive systems are also finding their way into companies, e.g., shift plans dynamically adapt to the requirements of manufacturing sites such as production demand at a given time or blue-collar workers’ physical abilities.