OVERVIEW
Participatory Architectural Change MAnagement in ATM Systems (PACAS) is a Horizon 2020 project in the framework of the SESAR Research and Innovation Action (RIA).
Started in March 2016, PACAS will last 24 months.
The main objective is to better understand, model and analyse changes at different layers of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system to support change management, while capturing how architectural and design choices influence the overall system. The project aims at developing an innovative participatory change management process wherein heterogeneous stakeholders actively participate in the architectural evolution of the ATM system.
Project pillars
The novelty and expected impact of PACAS relies on three main pillars: 1. Impact propagation techniques, 2. Gamified platform, 3. Domain-specific modelling languages. These are key components of the participatory design process wherein multiple, heterogeneous ATM domain stakeholders participate, each having a different view of the system, bi-directional relationships are in place between the strategic layers and the architecture layer, and the PACAS platform is crucial to establish and maintain consistency among the different layers and views.
Glossary
Air Traffic Management primarily consists of three distinct activities: Air Traffic Control, Air Traffic Flow Management, Aeronautical Information Services.
See: EUROCONTROL.
It is the topic of discussion of the participatory change management process. A change issue is solved when change management process is finished for that particular topic.
A set of activities performed to change a system.
In each view only relevant concerns (related to the relative area of expertise) are considered and highlighted when architectural changes are introduced, and expressed with an adequate language of the domain.
See: Karsai et al. 2009
The use of game elements in non-gaming contexts in order to maximize the long-term engagement to the decision process. It employs game elements that provide adequate, valuable incentives and rewards when stakeholders help each other.
A hierarchy of goals, which represent desired state of affairs, suitable to model strategic concerns of the stakeholders they help refining high-level concerns into lower level more concrete pieces, in building the ‘why’ relationships between the higher and lower levels.
A model including several layers of abstraction of an ATM system e.g. architectural, strategic layer and different ATM sub-domains e.g. organisational (structure), security, and safety to tackle the complexity of the ATM system.
The output of the PACAS project, which consists in the change management process customized for ATM systems and the PACAS platform.
A gamified web-based software that supports the change management process in ATM systems.
High-level management bodies, regulators, policy makers and analysts of Navigation Service Providers and aviation and aeronautics industries, including safety, security and IT managers and air traffic controllers.
A co-management activity made by the end-to-end interaction and consultation between stakeholders, providing background, experience and know-how from her own sub-domain perspective, to ensure better and sustainable change management process.
Reasoning techniques: ad-hoc, strategic guided reasoning process helping to model the relations between layers and propagation of changes.
This project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 699306 under European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation. © – 2016 – University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, University of Utrecht. All rights reserved. Licensed to the SESAR Joint Undertaking under conditions.
