Architecting System of Systems Solutions with Security and Data-Protection Principles

The rapid advancement of communication technology realized the dream of interconnected systems. In addition to enabling scalability and flexibility of solutions, this paradigm created new system design challenges. One such challenge is to holistically address security and privacy concerns of solutions early in design while respecting the system...

Reference architecture of technological demonstrators for enhanced maritime situational awareness

In multinational defence operations, either EU or NATO driven, the exchange of surveillance and reconnaissance data and information is an essential aspect to provide to the commander the needed situational awareness. This improvement of situational awareness, especially in a maritime environment, may be achieved amongst others by extending the...

Collecting and Classifying Security and Privacy Design Patterns for Connected Vehicles: SECREDAS Approach

In the past several years, autonomous driving turned out tobe a target for many technical players. Automated driving requires newand advanced mechanisms to provide safe functionality and the increased communication makes automated vehicles more vulnerable to attacks. Security is already well-established in some domains, such as the IT sector,...

Structured problem exploration approach for the pre-concept stage of system development

At the pre-concept stage, an architect explores the problem space together with various stakeholders, including engineers, marketing, and future users of the system. This requires competencies and tactics to communicate efficiently while maintaining a system-level scope. We present a practical Structured Problem Exploration approach to assist...

On functional safety methods: A system of systems approach

Open architecture of smart sensor suites

Experiences from recent conflicts show the strong need for smart sensor suites comprising different multi-spectral imaging sensors as core elements as well as additional non-imaging sensors. Smart sensor suites should be part of a smart sensor network - A network of sensors, databases, evaluation stations and user terminals. Its goal is to...

Probabilistic System Summaries for Behavior Architecting

Smart system of systems adapt to their context, current situation, and configuration. To engineer such systems’ behavior, we need to design and eval-uate system-level control strategies and the intelligent management of key scenarios. We propose a model-based approach called probabilistic system summaries to explore related design choices, e.g.,...

European innovation policy: New rationales and challenges

Roadmap towards a smart logistics ecosystem

Currently, the fundamentals of a technical infrastructure for a logistics ‘systems-of-systems’ are laid, facilitating improved, more effective and efficient logistics services based on higher levels of self-organization. Through situation awareness with enhanced methods for sharing (real-time) data, logistic stakeholders can improve decision...

METIS: Dependable Cooperative Systems for Public Safety

Much, if not most, information needed to assess a crisis situation originates these days from cooperative sources such as the Internet and social networks. Public safety authorities face the challenge to compile this information of uncertain origin and quality in their situation understanding and response planning. Time matters: the integration...