System risks in information-rich environments: monitoring for safe and cost-effective operation

本提案的总主题是信息丰富环境中的系统风险：监测安全和具有成本效益的操作。该领域的研究旨在支持能源，运输，民用和其他领域新工程系统的设计，制造和运营。监测技术和数据处理技术的迅速发展为改善这种现代工程系统的安全性和提高成本效益提供了巨大的潜力。这种监测和数据处理方法的组合提供了一个信息丰富的环境-几乎是一个新的世界，与系统运行的真实的物理环境并存。然而，为了有效地使用这些方法进行安全和具有成本效益的系统操作，我们必须知道不同的极端条件发生的频率，人类将如何与所提供的信息进行交互，以及对安全和成本的影响。通过采取这种更广泛的背景下，我们的目标是提供良好的决策支持模型，在设计，制造和新的工程系统的操作阶段，以支持安全性和成本效益。由于一些技术、经济和政治因素，现在必须考虑这些问题。正在发生的基本技术变化是，在技术系统运行期间，来自监测器和传感器并通过IT系统处理的有关技术系统的信息的数量和质量都有了显著增加。这些提供了使用和与系统交互的完全不同的方式的可能性，如果正确使用，可能会节省成本并提高安全性。当前全球经济的快速变化增加了英国PLC的竞争，这意味着我们必须比以往任何时候都更加意识到通过上级信息获得技术优势的可能性。然而，如果不适当考虑风险，可能会出现意想不到的安全或成本问题。我们的现代社会与其24小时媒体非常重视风险规避，从而带来了政治层面。人们普遍认识到，风险问题需要多学科方法，涉及工程、数学、计算机科学，甚至需要通过整合心理学等其他学科来进一步拓展。斯特拉斯克莱德的目标是，通过这项提议，将这些研究人员聚集在一起，创造创新的新方法，将风险纳入新系统的设计、制造和运行阶段。这样做将扩大一些现有的合作，从而为他们的工作提供新的方向，并将创造新的合作。该计划将利用大学在合作领域的专业知识/这是商学院研究的一个非常重要的部分/以便尽可能有效地指导其工作。因此，该大学希望不仅建立斯特拉斯克莱德作为一个世界领先的中心，对多学科的方法，以技术风险问题，但也要找到和应用这些方法，刺激合作，最好的工作在斯特拉斯克莱德，使这些可以更广泛地用于支持大学的目标是一个有用的学习的地方。

The overall theme of this proposal is System risks in information-rich environments: monitoring for safe and cost-effective operation. Research in this area aims to support the design, manufacture and operation of new engineered systems in energy, transport, civil applications and elsewhere. Rapid advances in monitoring technologies and data processing techniques offer huge potential for improving safety and increasing cost-effectiveness in such modern engineered systems. The combination of such monitoring and data processing methods provides an information-rich environment - almost a new world existing alongside the real physical environment in which the systems are operated. However, in order to use such methods effectively for safe and cost-effective systems operation we have to know how frequently different extreme conditions occur, how humans will interact with the information being provided, and what the impacts on safety and cost are. By taking this broader context we aim to provide good decision support models in the design, manufacture and operation phases of new engineered systems, to support safety and cost-effectiveness. It is important to consider these issues now because of a number of technical, economical and political factors. The basic technical change taking place is the dramatic increase in the amount and quality of information available about technological systems during their operation, coming from monitors and sensors and processed through IT systems. These give the potential for completely different ways of using and interacting with systems that could potentially save costs and improve safety if used correctly. The current rapid economic change occurring globally has increased competition for UK PLC, and this implies that we have to be more aware than ever of the possibility of technological advantages gained through superior information. However, without proper consideration of risks there may be unexpected safety or cost problems. Our modern society with its 24 hour media places great emphasis on risk avoidance, thus bringing in the political dimension. It is widely recognized that risk problems require multidisciplinary approaches, involving engineering, mathematics, computer science and even need to reach out further by integrating other disciplines such as psychology. Strathclyde aims, with this proposal to bring together these researchers to create innovative new approaches to incorporate risk into design manufacturing and operation phases for new systems. In doing so it will broaden out some existing collaborations, thus giving new directions to their work, and will create new collaborations. The programme will use the expertise available in the university in the area of collaboration / it is a highly important part of the research of the Business School / in order to direct its efforts as efficiently as possible. As a result the University hopes not only to establish Strathclyde as a world leading centre on multi-disciplinary approaches to technological risk problems, but also to find and apply those methods of stimulating collaboration that work best at Strathclyde, so that these can be used more widely in support of the university's aim of being a place of useful learning .