Joachim Wachter

TRIDEC system-of-systems

The TRIDEC system-of-systems establishes collaborative, large-scale concurrent and intelligent information management of natural crises focusing on the integration of task-oriented and proprietary systems, cooperatively interacting as a collective in an environment of heterogeneous and geographically distributed systems. Following the principles of event-driven and service-oriented architectures, the system is able to provide novel yet coherent behaviour and features based on a dynamic self-organization. The process of self-organization is established on the basis of autonomous and concurrent tasks that are enacted by choreographies specifying the expected behaviour of the participating components. Although the individual systems are able to act completely independently, their interactions expose emergent structures of evolving nature in a process of re-organizing their network. By the specification of global conversations, maintained in commonly available semantic registries it is possible to establish a federation of systems that is able to adapt its behaviour to unforeseen events like partly system failures.