Creating Networking Adaptive Interactive Hybrid Systems: A Methodic Approach

Advances in network technologies enable distributed systems, operating in complex physical environments, to co-ordinate their activities over larger areas within shorter time intervals. Some envisioned application domains for such systems are defense, crisis management, traffic management, public safety and security, defense and smart infrastructures. In these systems, humans and intelligent machines will, in close interaction, be able to adapt their behavior under changing conditions and situations to reach their goals. Various architecture models are proposed for such systems from different research areas such as sensor web technology, data fusion, command and control, cognitive systems, multi agent systems, complex adaptive systems and cyber physical systems. However, most of these models only cover part of the system, are too much focused on specific research areas and use different design principles. In this papers the latest developments of a method for designing these Networking Adaptive Interactive Hybrid (human-machine) Systems is presented, paving the way to efficient and effective design and operation.