Elicitation of technical requirements in large research projects: The CERBERO approach

Technical Requirements (TRs) provide a “black box” conceptualization of the target project results with explicit verification tests. The goal of Technical Requirements Elicitation (TRE) is to ensure that all needs of involved stakeholders are being identified and adequately addressed without prescribing how to achieve them. Whilst TRE...

Integration of vulnerable road users in cooperative ITS systems

Introduction: This paper describes the development of an architecture for the integration of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), i.e. pedestrians, cyclists and powered two-wheelers (PTWs) in Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) systems, and the requirements for VRU devices. Methods: This paper starts with a literature overview on research related to safety...

Facilitating the BIM coordinator and empowering the suppliers with automated data compliance checking

Use cases, requirements and assessment criteria for future self-organising radio access networks

Self-organisation (self-optimisation, self-configuration, and self-healing) methods are a promising concept to automate wireless access network planning, deployment and optimisation. This paper contains a mind setting exercise. First the mechanisms for which self-organisation is anticipated to be effective and feasible are identified. Then...

Non-toxic liquid propellant selection method a requirement-oriented approach

Commercial pressure on users and suppliers of space systems is forcing industry to reduce operational time and costs on ground and to increase reliability of operations in orbit. One opportunity has been identified in the use of non-toxic alternatives to established state-of the art propellants for spacecraft and orbital vehicles. Due to the...