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1. JRA2: Emergence Theories and Design
Methodologies
Kick-off Meeting
Brussels, 21-22 December 2011
Dirk Trossen (UCAM)
Network of
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS Excellence in
Internet Science

2. WP Objectives
 Bring together various communities involved
in the design of Internet solutions
 Increase the understanding of how various
design methodologies relate to each other
 Distill a set of rigorous design methods that
are directly anchored into a deep scientific
understanding
 Gather a set of tools (from existing efforts in
this space)
 Inform the various stakeholders
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

3. WP Tasks
 R2.1 Distilling Design methodologies
 R2.2 Developing a Set of Design Tools
 R2.3 Exemplifying Use of Design Tools
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

4. R2.1 Distilling Design methodologies
 Engage with individual design communities
 Develop growing repository of methodologies
 used in communities such as user experience, sociology,
economics, governance, networks, physics, and many others
 Clarify their standing in the overall problem space of
system design as well as the specific needs they address
 Partners: UCAM, UPMC, ALB, UoS, NKUA, UNI PASSAU,
ULANC, SOTON
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

5. R2.2 Developing a Set of Design Tools
 Development of design tools
 help the wider multi-disciplinary community to go about its holistic
challenge of (scientifically) designing solutions and arguing about
their viability on the basis of a set of rigorous methodologies
 Push the boundaries of design beyond the often stove-
piped solutions that are abound
 Study methodologies and general frameworks
 model the interplay between social and technical aspects in the
design of the future Internet
 Partners: UCAM, CNR, IBBT, UoS, NKUA, TCLR, UNI
PASSAU, ULANC
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

6. R2.2 Developing a Set of Design Tools
 Examples
 Model the social impact of the adoption of a technical solution
• Expected input: game theory
 Perform quantitative evaluation for a certain business model
• Expected input: investment analysis study
 Capture the various conflicts (tussles) that impact the viability of a
given design or a set of design choices under a varying set of
possible evolution scenarios
• Expected input: system dynamics
 Such development is an ambitious goal
 Requires tight interaction between researchers in the areas of
human social sciences and ICT
 Will take stock from existing activities in this area, identify areas
for further research between the different disciplines, and pursue
innovative research in order to become a point of reference
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

7. R2.3 Exemplifying Use of Design Tools
 Illustrate and exemplify the ability to understand and reason
over design (decisions) through a set of use cases
 A set of interesting design questions will be identified
 Provide meaningful answers based on the developing design
methodologies
 Possible use cases
 FTTH, community networks, pervasive sensing, mobile network
deployments, eHealth, retail, transportation, and many others.
 Another set of use cases can be drawn from the various efforts in FI
architectures such as pursued in CCN/NDN, FP7 PURSUIT, FP7
SAIL or others
 Partners: UCAM, UPMC, UoS, IBBT, CERTH
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

8. WP Action List for the 1st Year
 D2.1.1: Repository of methodologies, design tools
and use cases (M18)
 first draft expected
 MS10: Year 1 progress – Contribution to the
Roadmap of the Internet Science for FP8 and
Survey of the current methodologies (M12)
 Workshop on “Thinking Architecturally”
 See more later
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

9. Interdependencies with other WPs
 Strong relations with JRA1 and JRA3 as the
„foundational JRAs‟
 Relations with other JRAs driven by
 Methodologies (and communities applying
them)
 Use cases
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10. WP Impact
 Develop a holistic notion of a Design
Science
 Scientificreasoning over design choices
 Qualitative as well as quantitative!
 Outreach to wider design community
 Move FAR beyond computer science
 Cross-inform communities about growing set
of methodologies
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

11. Issues to be discussed and decided
 Workshop on “Thinking Architecturally”
 Aims at bringing together various design
communities in an attempt to cross-fertilize the
required understanding when "thinking
architecturally" in the context of large-scale
multi-stakeholder systems
 The expected outcome will feed into a growing
taxonomy of design methodologies and it will
seed the repository of design methodologies
 Originally proposed in relation to SEA3
 Target timeframe: Q2/2012
EINS Kick-off Meeting Brussels, December 21-22, 2011