European Requirements for R&D in Information Infrastructure Dependability

1. European Requirements for R&D in Information Infrastructure Dependability R&D Strategy For Sustaining An Information SocietyUS-EU Collaboration National Conference Center, Lansdowne, VA September 23-24, 2002 Reinhard Hutter, IABG Andrew Rathmell, KCL

2. Dependability DevelopmentSupport Initiative DDSI aims to establish networks of interest, to provide baseline data and todevelop policy roadmaps on information infrastructure dependability. Marking the transition of II dependability from a bottom up, technical concern to a public policy & strategic business concern Viewing dependability as a business enabler Across national and sectoral boundaries European focus, global context Informing the policy debate

3. Deliverables • Concepts • Conceptual Framework • Global Inventory/Benchmarking • Global Policy Status Overview • EU and NAS Policy Status Report • Public Policy Findings • Public Policy Workshop • Policy Synthesis • Public conference (10 October, Brussels) • Warning and Information Sharing • Public Private Partnerships • R&D Policy

4. R&D Policy Roadmap • a strategic roadmap for the development of a European R&D programme aimed at improving the dependability of Europe’s information infrastructures • identify strategic approaches to develop a coherent and overarching research strategy addressing all aspects of information infrastructure dependability • provide a basis for other roadmaps

5. Towards a Roadmap

6. Workshop Aims • Vision • Drivers/needs • Requirements Capture • Research & policy • Research agenda • Input to overall gap analysis • Technology Take-up

7. R&D Vision • Challenge is clear • Societal dependence upon large, unbounded, multi-jurisdictional socio-technical systems • Ambient Intelligent Space as the new infrastructural paradigm • Strategic Goals and societal impact? • Benefits to European society • E.g. Component level (warrantable software) to boost IT industry • System and societal level – Focus upon services • Social, political, business goals - “Dependability Gap”

8. Dependability Approaches • Improving dependability is a means • Making dependability an integral property of the Information Society • But do not have adequate analytical frameworks and methods for the new environment • So, “revolution” or “paradigm shift” required • Draw from other disciplines/communities • Especially for task of characterising the infrastructures (e.g. Complex Systems Theory) • Practical applications of biomimetic approaches, financial market modelling, oceanography, etc

9. Changing Paradigms • System View: from Components to Networks from Single Sector to Multidisciplinary from Bounded to Unbounded • MOE/Metrology: from Few to Manyfold • Knowledge: from Comprehensive to Inkomplete • Concepts: from Known to Emergent • Stakeholders: from Few to Many • Ownership: from Clear to Diffuse • Threat: from „Classical“ to Asymmetric • Methodology: from Familiar to Novel • Legal&Regulatory: from Stable to Uneasy

10. Requirements • From centralised control to the economics of functionality • E.g. home user; electrical sector • From the functionality-security dilemma to embedding dependability • Current user concerns vs the future paradigm • From the PC-based infrastructure to pervasive computing • Variety of user communities (e.g. retail software vs. enterprise) • Fixing today’s problems and building the new paradigm

11. Research & Policy • Research Policy • Management, funding, impact • Research for Policy Support • Informing policy-making through a transnational network of experts • Policy aspects of dependability • Better understanding of political, social, economic contexts and drivers

12. Research Agenda • Societal, system of systems, components • Reinforce strengths at component design level but stress “new” levels • Prioritisation & categorisation • Multiple sources of recommendations & “shopping lists”

13. Topics • Policy Issues • Basic Research • Interdependencies; Threats & Risks; Implications of new technologies • Human Factor • User/Customers; Service Providers & Vendors; Others • Economic Aspects • Technical Measures & Capabilities • Protection; Detection; Reaction; Other • Organisational Measures • Measurement, Simulation & Testing

14. Take-Up • Two way dialogue between researchers, implementers and users • Mechanisms for “tactical” research • Assisting users with identification of applicable techniques & approaches • Awareness activities to stimulate market • School, corporate, public education • Market mechanisms (e.g. corporate governance, liability, insurance, legislation) • Education & skills

15. Bringing Actors Together • Government Politics • Providers & Economy, Market, Manufacturers Technology • Users & Dependants Public Life, Awareness • Universities & Institutes Research

16. Bringing Actors Together • Sharing of Efforts • Optimising of Investments • Synergy of the Best • Shared Solutions

17. Changing Paradigms • System View: from Components to Networks from Single Sector to Multidisciplinary from Bounded to Unbounded • MOE/Metrology: from Few to Manyfold • Knowledge: from Comprehensive to Inkomplete • Concepts: from Known to Emergent • Stakeholders: from Few to Many • Ownership: from Clear to Diffuse • Threat: from „Classical“ to Asymmetric • Methodology: from Familiar to Novel • Legal&Regulatory: from Stable to Uneasy

18. Obstacles to Fast Solutions • Degree of Complexity – Systems of Systems • Pace of Technological Development • Global Penetration & Proliferation • Interdependencies of Many Sectors • Different National or Local Approaches • Differing Objectives and Diverging Interests of Stakeholders • Unpredictable Threat

19. Conclusions • New R&D Approaches Required • A Challenging Domain for R&D • No Total Deterministic Solution • Learn and Benefit from other Disciplines • Creativity and Fantasy Required • Analytical Tools Necessary for - Better Understanding - Design and Optimisation - Evaluation of Procedures - Investigation of Scenarios - In Action Decision Support - Training and Education • Fusion and Integration of National and Local Programmes and Projects

20. Hope & Vision • High and Growing Attention at the EU • Growing Attention at Member State´s Governments • Promising Local Efforts, Programs and Organisations • Improving Regional and Global Exchange and Information Sharing • R&D Programmes and Approaches at Many Places • Building of Communities • Harmonisation of Terminology, Approaches, Standards • Establishing of Joint Projects