SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION: a cluster dedicated to complex systems
Today’s society depends on complex systems
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Complex systems combine:
- Sensors and information processing...
- Communication and Decision-making processes...
They are deployed across a wide area (Large Sytems) or embedded into a smaller environment (Embedded Systems). They play a key role in management, supervision, regulation and control of today’s society, especially in the following fields: trade, energy, transport, environment, defence, finance, health, security.
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They share two major features:
- In normal operation, these systems are practically invisible to the user who only sees the final service provided (i.e. financial transactions, assisted braking)
- In fail soft mode (when there is a failure, a mistake, an attack, etc.), the existence of this system becomes obvious: the system’s failure causes the paralysis of a society’s vital function and therefore puts people and property in jeopardy
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SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION main challenges are to develop new approaches to design futur generations of complex systems and objects.
Innovation is a key factor for industrial competitiveness, it becomes effective when you manage :
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- To bring together Large companies, SMEs and research laboratories working in partnership in a given region
- To involve high tech SMEs, techno-providers who will become tomorrow’s leaders
- To get support from public institutions as well as local, regional and national governments
R&D projects developed by SYSTEM@TIC join this dynamics of innovation.
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The SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION goal is to raise Paris-Region at the international top level of the ICTs and specificly number 1 in Software-Intensive Systems (SISs).
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SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION strategy :
to combine key technologies and growing target market
This strategic positioning puts the Cluster ahead of key technologies :
- optics
- electronics
- software
SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION targets applicative technologies which will cover a wide range of briskly growing markets (10% to 20% per year) offering a host of opportunities (open-ended rules, open standards and upsurge of freeware) that meet the social needs of major large cities in the 21st century.
SYSTEM@TIC PARIS REGION focuses on five Working Groups sharing strategic vision and monitoring innovative projects:
