ABSTRACT
The methodology found to be most successful in the design of multi-environment and multi-context systems was that of Activity Structures. This chapter presents the fundamentals of Activity Structures that are indispensable for a thorough exploration of the multi-environmental issues. The Activities Structures approach has three facets, which are mutually interlinked: conceptual; methodological; and formal and algorithmic. The Activity Structures approach has found its applications in many fields concerned with the study, understanding, modeling and synthesis of action, such as brain sciences, medicine, psychology or social sciences. There are no easy shortcuts in the construction of systems for multi-environmental and multi-context situations. The chapter discusses the various aspects of structures of behaviour, such as Environmental Activity Structures, Aim Environmental Activity Structures, Functional Environmental Structures and Functional Activity Structures. It provides an overview of basic elements of Activity Structures in a General Systems setup, which was originally concieved and developed as a possibilistic meta-theory of action.
