From requirements to operation: components for risk assessment in a pervasive system of systems.

Ki-Aries, Duncan; Dogan, Huesyin; Faily, Shamal; Whittington, Paul; Williams, Christopher

Abstract

Framing Internet of Things (IoT) applications as a System of Systems (SoS) can help us make sense of complexity associated with interoperability and emergence. However, assessing the risk of SoSs is a challenge due to the independence of component systems, and their differing degrees of control and emergence. This paper presents three components for SoS risk assessment that integrate with existing risk assessment approaches: Human System Integration (HSI), Interoperability identification and analysis, and Emergent behaviour evaluation and control measures. We demonstrate the application of these components by assessing a pervasive SoS: a SmartPowerchair.

Citation

KI-ARIES, D., DOGAN, H., FAILY, S., WHITTINGTON, P. and WILLIAMS, C. 2017. From requirements to operation: components for risk assessment in a pervasive system of systems. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2017), part of the 25th IEEE international requirements engineering conference workshops (REW 2017), 4-8 September 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 83-89. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/REW.2017.36

• Conference Name: 4th Workshop on evolving security and privacy requirements engineering (ESPRE 2017), part of the 25th IEEE international requirements engineering conference workshops (REW 2017)
• Conference Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Start Date: Sep 4, 2017
• End Date: Sep 8, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Jul 7, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Oct 2, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 7, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 7, 2021
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• Pages: 83-89
• ISBN: 9781538634899
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/rew.2017.36
• Keywords: Security risk analysis; Systems security; Internet of Things (IoT); System of systems (SoS); Human-computer interaction; User-centred design; Assistive technologies; Requirements engineering; Software engineering
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1437906