Application Engineering

Task TE 3.1:

Generic Building-Blocks for Telematics Infrastructure
Provide support for achieving the economies of sharing and scale by maximising the use of generic building blocks in telematics applications across different sectors, producing a highly layered and structured telematics infrastructure (stratification). To consider means for identifying common requirements across projects and sectors, providing consistency between telematics solutions in the use of identical infrastructural components, and for defining critical service levels, interservice specifications and common functional modules composing the telematics infrastructure.

Within FLUIDS generic building blocks will be developed for telematics infrastructure support in the design of intelligent interfaces for a broad class of systems. This is an important feature because systems exist that were not designed with a knowledge oriented organisation but that may be improved by creating intelligent user interfaces. This can be achieved by embodying capabilities for understanding the conventional modules of the existing system and in this way providing answers and explanations that are meaningful enough for adequate human-machine interaction in real time.

Task TE 3.2:

Telematics Systems Qualities
Select methods, tools and other best practices for ensuring the following systems qualities: openness, interworking and interoperability, precise interface definitions (e.g. for describing application programming interfaces), (pre-) standardisation, modularity (e.g. object orientation), distribution (e.g. client-server), multiple language support, flexibility, maintainability, reusability, stability, resilience, dependability, and conformity with user requirements.

The project FLUIDS will provide methods and tools to ensure the following system qualities: openness, intra- and interoperability, a precise interface definition to describe knowledge oriented application models for real time decision support systems.