Annex I - "Description of Work"Grant Agreement • February 12th, 2014
Contract Type FiledFebruary 12th, 2014General information Project title 3 SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS THAT ACT LOCALLY FOR OPTIMIZING GLOBALLY Starting date 4 01/10/2013 Duration in months 5 36 Call (part) identifier 6 FP7-ICT-2013-10 Activity code(s) most relevant to your topic 7 : Free keywords 8 Technological System of Systems, Control, Optimization Abstract 9 Today's Technical Systems of Systems (TSoS) such as transport, traffic and energy management systems require the deployment of an expensive-to-deploy and operate sensor and communication infrastructure. Moreover, they need a very time/effort-consuming modelling, analysis and control design procedure in order to achieve an efficient performance. On the contrary, Natural Systems of Systems (NSoS) such as the human brain, animal herds (swarms), teams of interacting/cooperating humans or animals achieve a highly efficient,elegant and supreme functionality without the need of an expensive infrastructure as they primarily rely on local information between neighbouring systems