RT Conference Proceedings T1 A safe generic adaptation mechanism for smart cars A1 Ruiz, Alejandra A1 Juez, Garazi A1 Schleiss, Philipp A1 Weiss, Gereon AB Today's vehicles are evolving towards smart cars, which will be able to drive autonomously and adapt to changing contexts. Incorporating self-adaptation in these cyber-physical systems (CPS) promises great benefits, like cheaper software-based redundancy or optimised resource utilisation. As promising as these advantages are, a respective proportion of a vehicle's functionality poses as safety hazards when confronted with fault and failure situations. Consequently, a system's safety has to be ensured with respect to the availability of multiple software applications, thus often resulting in redundant hardware resources, such as dedicated backup control units. To benefit from self-adaptation by means of creating efficient and safe systems, this work introduces a safety concept in form of a generic adaptation mechanism (GAM). In detail, this generic adaptation mechanism is introduced and analysed with respect to generally known and newly created safety hazards, in order to determine a minimal set of system properties and architectural limitations required to safely perform adaptation. Moreover, the approach is applied to the ICT architecture of a smart e-car, thereby highlighting the soundness, general applicability, and advantages of this safety concept and forming the foundation for the currently ongoing implementation of the GAM within a real prototype vehicle. PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. SN 9781509004065 YR 2016 FD 2016-01-13 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2311 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2311 LA eng NO Ruiz , A , Juez , G , Schleiss , P & Weiss , G 2016 , A safe generic adaptation mechanism for smart cars . in 2015 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2015 . , 7381810 , 2015 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2015 , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , pp. 161-171 , 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2015 , Gaithersbury , United States , 2/11/15 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE.2015.7381810 NO conference NO Publisher Copyright: © 2015 IEEE. NO This work was partially funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme as part of the SafeAdapt project under grant number 608945. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 28 sept 2024