CRITICAL STEP

CRITICAL Software Technology for an Evolutionary Partnership

 Coordinatore CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER L'INFORMATICA 

 Organization address address: VIA SALARIA 113
city: ROMA
postcode: 198

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Domenico
Cognome: Cotroneo
Email: send email
Telefono: 39081676770
Fax: 39081676574

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Totale costo 1˙252˙567 €
 EC contributo 1˙252˙567 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008
 Funding Scheme MC-IAPP
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-12-01   -   2013-11-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER L'INFORMATICA

 Organization address address: VIA SALARIA 113
city: ROMA
postcode: 198

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Domenico
Cognome: Cotroneo
Email: send email
Telefono: 39081676770
Fax: 39081676574

IT (ROMA) coordinator 124˙595.00
2    CRITICAL SOFTWARE SA

 Organization address address: PARQUE INDUSTRIAL DE TAVEIRO LOTE 48
city: COIMBRA
postcode: 3045 504

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Gonçalo
Cognome: Araújo Fernandes
Email: send email
Telefono: +351 239 989 100
Fax: +351 239 989 119

PT (COIMBRA) participant 540˙650.00
3    SESM SOLUZIONI EVOLUTE PER LA SISTEMISTICA E I MODELLI S.C.A.R.L.

 Organization address address: VIA CIRCUMVALLAZIONE ESTERNA Loc. Pontericcio Zona ASI
city: GIUGLIANO IN CAMPANIA
postcode: 80014

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Francesca
Cognome: Matarese
Email: send email
Telefono: -8180365
Fax: -8180446

IT (GIUGLIANO IN CAMPANIA) participant 491˙471.00
4    FACULDADE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA

 Organization address address: "RUA SILVIO LIMA, POLO II - UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA"
city: COIMBRA
postcode: 3030-790

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Henrique
Cognome: Madeira
Email: send email
Telefono: +351 239 790 003
Fax: +351 239 701 264

PT (COIMBRA) participant 95˙851.00

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industry    errors    domains    shelf    tools    complexity    tok    fault    software    robustness    infrastructures    factories    oil    evaluation    critical    staff    traffic    nuclear    protect    safety    off    components    tool    security    distributed    strategic    scss    multicore    ots    bugs    air   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The CRITICAL STEP aims to establish the basis for a long term strategic research collaboration between partners in the growing and challenging domain of software for large-scale Safety-Critical Systems (SCSs) based on the use of Off-The-Shelf (OTS) software components for the control of complex distributed infrastructures (e.g. systems for Air Traffic Management, Process Control in Chemical and Nuclear factories, Network Control in the Oil and Gas Industry). The global demand for such systems is high and it is expected to increase in the next years. The actual trend is to use middleware platforms with modular OTS components as a way to: 1) master the complexity in software design by creating, developing a managing an information control system and interconnection between federated systems; 2) reduce development and maintenance time and cost; 3) improve efficiency. Due to the critical nature of the infrastructures to be controlled, these goals must be achieved while assuring quantifiable requirements for safety and security. The CRITICAL STEP project proposes a Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) programme between Industry and Academy through secondments of their internal staff and integration of new recruited staff. The Tok objectives regard 3 main research topics: 1) qualitative evaluation of OTS software for SCS applications; 2) quantitative evaluation of dependability and robustness of OTS based SCSs; 3) R&D of techniques for on-line fault diagnosis. The partners involved in this project feel they are in need of sharing and combining their knowledge and use the existing synergies/complementarities to set long term strategic bases to deal with the complexity of the next generation SCSs, resist market competition and win the challenge of developing new safe technologies and standards. The involved researchers will share their expertise, absorb knowledge, develop original competences and integrate their new acquired know-how back to their home companies.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Readily available software technology has been exploited in ways that will encourage authorities to protect their critical infrastructures across a range of sectors and domains.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The adoption of large-scale safety-critical systems (SCSs) to ensure safety and security in domains ranging from nuclear factories to oil refineries is crucial for the well-being of civilisation. The EU-funded project 'Critical software technology for an evolutionary partnership' (http://www.critical-step.eu (CRITICAL STEP)) fostered long-term research collaboration among partners in software for SCSs. It sought to exploit off-the-shelf software components for the control of complex distributed infrastructures as worldwide growth for such infrastructures increases, along with the corresponding security challenges.

To achieve its aims, the project team brought together four partners from university and research centres, as well as from small and medium enterprises. It developed three key tools in the field, the first of which was conceived for robustness testing of heterogeneous web services through a series of automatic and proper tests. The second tool, called software fault emulator, was designed to inject bugs in complex software systems to evaluate fault tolerance mechanisms and algorithms against faulty software components. Equally noteworthy was the third tool, a multicore injection tool to introduce hardware errors in multicore processors to assess how the application and operating systems can handle multicore errors.

The tools were then tested in real-life scenarios in the field of air traffic management and airspace. The results demonstrated the success of the tools in achieving their objectives and in helping protect critical infrastructures using less expensive and more ubiquitous technology.

Overall project findings have been disseminated through journals and conferences, as well as through the project website. These tools will undoubtedly help not only Europe but also the world in guarding against bugs, hackers and even terrorist threats to key infrastructures.

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