情報理工学英語特別講義Ⅰ(国民生活・社会基盤としてのITシステム特論)

Many new services supporting our daily life composed of multiple systems via internet are prevailing. Society is increasingly dependent on software systems. Software failures and data incompatibility can cause or contribute to serious accidents that result in death, injury, serious environmental damage, or major financial loss. Such accidents have already occurred especially in areas such as transportation, health care, and the broader infrastructure. These may make them more frequent and more serious. In the future, more pervasive development of software in the civic infrastructure could lead to more catastrophic failures unless improvements are made.
On the other hand, so far worldwide research and studies have been suggesting us that software-related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements; incomplete or wrong assumptions about operation of controlled system or computers, and unhandled controlled-system states and environmental conditions. Consequently, merely trying to get the software “correct” or to make it reliable (satisfy its requirements) will not make it safer under these conditions. In other words, preventing component or functional failure is NOT enough for maintaining or realizing system safety and security. This is a reason why currently systems engineering is coming to be focused on instead of conventional software engineering. In order to help the students understand the key technological issues for realizing dependable IT systems as public and socio-economic infrastructures, multifaceted topics will be lectured by experts who are at the forefront from the following 3 aspects in this course.
1) Integrated systems as a social infrastructure - a large scale interconnected SoS (System of Systems) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
2) Open data and interoperability infrastructure of Japanese e-Government
3) Systems Engineering for Cyber Security and System Safety