Emergency Control Cockpit

Abstract

We live in a world of very large-scale systems which can be described as global, very fast, and often saturated with uncertainty. Talking about global communication and energy supply systems, interconnected financial markets, global business operation platforms or contemporary large social networks, we usually deal with normal operating regimes (~99% of time) while systems might switch into unstable regimes (~1% of time). Very rarely those systems end in emergency state which might degenerate into major catastrophe (huge human, material, environment losses). In this paper we describe the architecture and design details of an emergency control cockpit system, enabling better management of various system crises.