The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg GRK 1362) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It addresses fundamental scientific and technological challenges arising from the collaboration of networked autonomous entities that accomplish a common task through actively monitoring the environment and through requisite responses via a variety of stationary and mobile sensors/actuators. The sensing/actuating entities (and the collaborative system thus formed) monitor, acquire, manage and disseminate data with the goal of deriving higher level (context/event) information upon which the system can respond appropriately.