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Smart devices have a significant presence in our life. Humans and artificial entities are continuously interfacing across a variety of scenarios such as smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart grid, smart city, etc. Nevertheless, there are still different critical points to be faced. Among the many, given the ever-growing potential for action, a major issue concerns the autonomy of these devices. We propose a possible solution on how IoT devices may act to get more autonomy, in relation to the specific user they interface with. Thus, we considered a possible implementation in a simulation context, showing how the proposed approach works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of IoT technologies is undeniable. They are entering more and more in our lives, carrying out increasingly complex tasks. However, there are still a few problems we need to face and solve. For instance, it is not given that the users will be prepared to afford all the automation that IoT devices will offer or that it will be compatible with the users' cognitive attitudes and its actual and real goals. Within this work, we start analyzing which reasons undermine the acceptance of IoT systems and then we propose a possible solution, tanking into account not just the user-device interaction, but also how this affects the device-device interaction. Since the complexity of the tasks the user asks may require the cooperation of some devices to be realized, the regulation of this relationship represents a necessary step for this technology. The first contribution of this work is the level characterization of the autonomy a user can grant to an IoT device. The second contribution is a theoretical model to deal with users and to stimulate users' acceptance, taking also into account a possible, collaborative organizational structure, to manage the creation of groups and the partners' selection process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]