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1 EXPLORATORY RESEARCH Roadmap for the exploitation D6.5 PACAS Grant: Call: H2020-SESAR Topic: Sesar ATM Architecture Consortium coordinator: UNITN Edition date: 21 February 2018 Edition:

2 EDITION Authoring & Approval Authors of the document Name/Beneficiary Martina Ragosta/DBL Paola Lanzi/DBL Fabiano Dalpiaz/UUTR Fatma Başak Aydemir/UUTR Paolo Giorgini/UNITN Diego Ponte/UNITN Roberta Cuel/UNITN Elda Paja/UNITN Luca Piras/UNITN Matthieu Branlat/SINTEF Per Håkon Meland/SINTEF Position/Title WP5-6 Leader Project member WP4 Leader Project member Project coordinator Project member Project member WP2 Leader Project member WP3 Leader Project member Reviewers internal to the project Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date Elisa Chiarani Project assistant 06/02/2018 Elda Paja WP2 Leader 06/02/2018 Elisa Chiarani Project assistant 08/02/2018 Elda Paja WP2 Leader 08/02/2018 Approved for submission to the SJU By Representatives of beneficiaries involved in the project Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date Paolo Giorgini/UNITN Project Coordinator 21/02/2018 Rejected By - Representatives of beneficiaries involved in the project Name/Beneficiary Position/Title Date University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

3 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION Document History Edition Date Status Author Justification /01/2018 Draft Paola Lanzi Proposed table of contents /01/2018 Draft Fabiano Dalpiaz, Elda Paja, Matthieu Branlat Provided revisions and comments on ToC /01/2018 Draft Martina Ragosta Approved structure and added content /01/2018 Draft Diego Ponte, Luca Piras Added content /01/2018 Draft Per Håkon Meland, Fatma Başak Aydemir, Roberta Cuel /01/2018 Draft Elda Paja, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Matthieu Branlat Added content and improved formatting Added content, improved content of Individual exploitation /02/2018 Proposed draft Paola Lanzi Proposed draft for quality check/major content comments /02/2018 Quality check/major revision Elda Paia, Elisa Chiarani Quality check/major revision /02/2018 Post 1 st review draft Paola Lanzi, Martina Ragosta Major revision addressed /02/ nd quality check Elisa Chiarani 2 nd quality check /02/ nd content revision Elda Paia 2 nd content revision /02/2018 Post 2 nd review draft Paola Lanzi Addressed 2 nd quality check and content revision /02/2018 Final version Paolo Giorgini Approval for official submission 2016 University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 3

4 EDITION PACAS PARTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN ATM SYSTEMS This deliverable has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No under the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Abstract PACAS develops and promotes the adoption of an innovative participatory change management process, where stakeholders will actively participate to the architectural evolution of the system under consideration, aims at better understanding, modelling and analysing changes at different layers of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) System while capturing how architectural and design choices influence the overall system. This document presents the PACAS Exploitation Roadmap describing how the consortium intends to use the PACAS results for their exploitation for academic and commercial purposes. It includes information about the exploitation process applied in the project, the project results identified as exploitable, the target stakeholders of the exploitation activities, SWOT analysis, IPR management and details on both individual and joint exploitation strategies foreseen by the partners in the next 4 years. Finally, a roadmap for the exploitation is offered, concerning both individual and joint exploitation initiatives University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

5 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION Table of Contents Abstract... 4 Executive summary Introduction PACAS Overview Relationship with other deliverables Structure of this document Global valorisation of PACAS innovative outcomes Exploitation in Horizon 2020 and in PACAS The PACAS approach to exploitation Step 1 Identification of PACAS Exploitable Results Step 2 - Stakeholders identification Step 3 Analysis of PACAS Exploitable Results Maturity level SWOT analysis IPR Management Step 4 Exploitation strategy definition Individual exploitation University of Trento Deep Blue Stiftelsen SINTEF Utrecht University Joint exploitation strategy References Appendix University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 5

6 EDITION Executive summary PACAS develops and promotes the adoption of an innovative participatory change management process, where stakeholders will actively participate to the architectural evolution of the system under consideration, aims at better understanding, modelling and analysing changes at different layers of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) System while capturing how architectural and design choices influence the overall system. This document presents the PACAS Exploitation Roadmap describing how the consortium intends to use the PACAS results for their exploitation at academic and commercial purposes in a range of period of 4 years after the end of the project. It includes information about the exploitation process applied in the project, the project results identified as exploitable, the target stakeholders of the exploitation activities, SWOT analysis, IPR management and details on both individual and joint exploitation strategies foreseen by the partners in the next 4 years. Finally, a roadmap for the exploitation is offered, concerning both individual and joint exploitation initiatives. The PACAS approach to exploitation developed in a process based on 4 recurrent tasks: 1) IDENTIFICATION OF EXPLOITABLE RESULTS aiming at identifying specific technical results, achieved from the specific WPs activities, worth to be exploited during and after the project 2) STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFICATION aiming at identifying the range of potential stakeholders interested in using the output of the project, further develop them or being impacted by the innovative results 3) ANALYSIS OF EXPLOITABLE RESULTS aiming at analysing the identified exploitable results in terms of maturity level, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) and IPR management and protection 4) EXPLOITATION STRATEGY DEFINITION aiming at defining the exploitation strategy and measures to be applied by the consortium members, both individually and through joint initiatives for each exploitable result. It includes the analysis of partners interest in the exploitation and the identification of target markets and audiences, potential competitors and complementors (if possible), as well as expected benefits and potential constraints of the foreseen exploitation initiatives University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

7 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION Thanks to the application of this process three main exploitable results have been identified and evaluated in terms of SWOT analysis and IPR management: The PACAS Collaborative Platform The PACAS participatory design process The PACAS modelling languages Recognizing the potential values of these results in terms of exploitation, individual strategies have been defined, describing how each partner intends to use these results for further research or commercial activities. In addition also joint exploitation activities have been envisaged, aiming at further developing these results and increase their maturity level in the course of a collective followup of the project University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 7

8 EDITION Introduction 1.1 PACAS Overview ATM systems are complex systems-of-systems that are managed via a layered architectural model, which includes operational, organisational, and technical layers to ease handling complexity. Due to strong interdependencies in an ATM system, any change introduced in any of these layers might trigger changes both within the same layer and in the other layers. Understanding all possible consequences of a design decision in ATM systems is a challenge due to the complexity of these systems and the existence of tight interdependencies within the ATM architecture. A careful consideration of possible changes together with their implications on the entire ATM system is crucial to support decision-making, while making sure that the ATM system does not suffer from any issues with respect to functionality, safety, security, performance, cost efficiency, or other desired characteristics of a well-functioning ATM system. Figure 1: Multi-view multi-objective gamified participatory design process for ATM architectural change management PACAS is about supporting change management in ATM systems from an architectural point of view, relying on the end-to-end inclusion of ATM domain stakeholders through gamification. The project constructs a platform that facilitates understanding, modelling and analysis of changes in the ATM system at different layers of abstraction. The approach to finding optimal solutions is based on a novel participatory design process to handle change management. The process relies on the provision of multiple views (to accommodate the expertise of the various domain stakeholders), as well as the representation and analysis of multiple objectives, namely those related to economical, organizational, security, and safety concerns (Figure 1) University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

9 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION 1.2 Relationship with other deliverables This deliverable is part of a work package (WP6) concerned with communication, dissemination and exploitation activities, which contribute to the project outcomes during the entire project period (as illustrated in the following picture). Figure 2: WP6 and other WPs interdependencies So its contents should be seen in relation with all the technical work packages, namely WP2, WP3 and WP4 dedicated to produce the PACAS platform, and WP5 focusing on its evaluation with the ATM domain stakeholders. Consequently, this document relates closely to these work packages and their deliverables such as D2.2 [1], D2.3 [2] and D2.4 [3] First and second release of the platform and guidelines and final report respectively, D3.2 First release of the Modelling proof-of-concept [4], D3.3 Modelling language meta model [5], D3.4 Final release of the Modelling proof- of concept [6], D4.2 First release of the reasoning proof-of-concept [7], D5.1 Concept, Scenarios and Validation Plan [8], and D5.2 Validation Report [9]. In particular, all the different validation activities helped in providing an overall view of the project results and constantly updating the exploitable ones (e.g., participatory design process, models, languages, reasoning techniques and supporting tools). Moreover, D6.1 [10] is of relevance for more background as it regards how to disseminate knowledge on the scientific and technical achievements, to build awareness of the project and of its potential impacts. 1.3 Structure of this document 2016 University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 9

10 EDITION This document is structured as follows: Section 2 describes the PACAS Exploitation process, including a description of PACAS Exploitation Results, the output of the SWOT analysis, the strategy of IPR Management and an introduction of the PACAS Exploitation Strategy Section 3 presents the PACAS Joint Exploitation Strategy Finally, Section 4 concludes the deliverable by describing individual partners exploitation plans. Indeed, the PACAS Consortium includes one Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Universities, and one large independent research organisation. Such different entities also have different exploitation needs and possibilities; therefore, partners exploitation paths differ from one from the other University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

11 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION 2 Global valorisation of PACAS innovative outcomes Exploitation and innovation management is quickly becoming a critical requirement for enabling sustainable Research and Innovation Actions to properly exploit all their relevant innovative outcomes (new ideas, new methods, new concepts, new prototypes/products, new services, etc.). The principal objective for exploitation in the PACAS project is to implement an exploitation strategy and a tentative roadmap to facilitate the successful exploitation and adoption of results and benefits within research communities and policy advisers. Exploitation activities in the PACAS project aim to ensure the longevity of the project s results through either policy uptake, further research or commercial applications. An overall perspective of the complete set of project activities is the basis for the definition of the exploitation activities to be carried out during the project. According to the maturity of the results, different levels of exploitability could be envisaged. 2.1 Exploitation in Horizon 2020 and in PACAS Exploitation is referred to by the European Commission as 1 : The utilisation of results in further research activities other than those covered by the action concerned, or in developing, creating and marketing a product or process, or in creating and providing a service, or in standardisation activities. The meaning of the word results in this context is broad, and refers to any tangible or intangible output of the action, such as data, knowledge and information whatever their form or nature, whether or not they can be protected, which are generated in the action as well as any attached rights, including intellectual property rights. The European Commission considers the activities to disseminate and exploit results from research and innovation projects, and to evaluate the performance of EU funding as well as carry out communication activities, as an important and integral part of the Horizon 2020 programme. Enhanced dissemination and exploitation are considered strategic matters for the success of Horizon University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 11

12 EDITION and for the achievement by the programme of sizeable economic, social and environmental impacts. For this reason, each project is required to produce a Plan of Exploitation and Dissemination of Results (PEDR) showing how the partners intend to communicate and use the results of the project, both during and beyond its execution. The PACAS Exploitation task (T6.3) aims to explore the potential for the development and exploitation of the project results (in particular the PACAS platform) and to plan the following exploitation process. According to Article 28.1 of the Grant Agreement (number ) [11], each beneficiary must up to four years after the period set out in Article 3 take measures aiming to ensure exploitation of its results (either directly or indirectly, in particular through transfer or licensing) by: a. using them in further research activities (outside the action) b. developing, creating or marketing a product or process c. creating and providing a service, or d. using them in standardisation activities. Based on this requirement, T6.3 aims to address exploitation in a coherent manner throughout the project and to support the beneficiaries in eliciting and coordinating their exploitation strategies, thus increasing the chances for the results of the project to become, through appropriate exploitation measures, innovations that can produce tangible benefits and satisfy specific needs and wants. It recognises that a different focus will be taken on the exploitation by academic partners (mostly centred on IPR and transfer of results) or by the industrial ones (where business models and their impact are the most important issues), as their needs are different. 2.2 The PACAS approach to exploitation According to the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation and to the project work programme, a plan for the exploitation and dissemination of results (PEDR) was set in the proposal preparation phase, consolidated at the beginning of the project (in D6.1 [10] and D6.2 [12] respectively), and then periodically checked and updated in the course of the project. The PACAS plan for exploitation activities foresaw the periodic use of the exploitation grid available in Appendix 1 and followed the following process based on 4 recurrent tasks: 1) IDENTIFICATION OF EXPLOITABLE RESULTS aiming at identifying specific technical results, achieved from the specific WPs activities, worth to be exploited during and after the project 2) STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFICATION aiming at identifying the range of potential stakeholders interested in using the output of the project, further develop them or being impacted by the innovative results 3) ANALYSIS OF EXPLOITABLE RESULTS aiming at analysing the identified exploitable results in terms of maturity level, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) and IPR management and protection 4) EXPLOITATION STRATEGY DEFINITION University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

13 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION aiming at defining the exploitation strategy and measures to be applied by the consortium members, both individually and through joint initiatives for each exploitable result. It includes the analysis of partners interest in the exploitation and the identification of target markets and audiences, potential competitors and complementors (if possible), as well as expected benefits and potential constraints of the foreseen exploitation initiatives. EXPLOITATION PROCESS Figure 3: PACAS Exploitation process The process adopted in PACAS and described above was inspired to the work done in the TIPS project 2. In particular, the overall approach to exploitation and the toolkit of supporting materials produced by TIPS were deeply analysed by the PACAS Consortium, who grounded the work on exploitation on the guidelines of the project and used some of its results to structure the exploitation grid and define the exploitation methodology adopted. 2 TIPS is a support action funded by the European Commission in the period (under the Seventh Framework Research Programme) to enhance the capacity of EU transport projects to transform research results into innovative products and services. The project was aimed to develop and pilot measures and support tools to help other publicly funded transport projects to succeed in reaching their final target group and achieving innovation development. All measures and tools were undertaken to pursue the goal of opening the eyes and guiding project consortia through to a structured process of successful exploitation. For information: University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 13

14 EDITION Step 1 Identification of PACAS Exploitable Results As anticipated in Section 1.1, the aim of the PACAS project is to construct a platform that facilitates understanding, modelling and analysis of changes in the ATM system at different layers of abstraction. The approach to finding optimal solutions is based on a novel participatory design process to handle change management that relies on the provision of multiple stakeholders views, as well as on representation and analysis of multiple objectives related to economical, organizational, security, and safety concerns. The main innovative outcomes of PACAS, worth to be considered as exploitable results, are: The PACAS Collaborative Platform A proof-of-concept collaborative platform that supports change management in settings where multiple perspectives and interests should be taken into account. Moreover, in the settings taken into account the complexity of the domain requires the use of a digital platform to keep track of the changes and to determine the impacts that changes in one perspective have on other perspectives such as economic, organisational, security, and safety (for further details [3]) The PACAS participatory design process Participatory methodology that supports the effective collaboration among ATM stakeholders. The key novelty of the methodology is to promote participation as opposed to decisions taken on the basis of power and politics also through the explicit representation of the rationale of the various stakeholders, i.e., their arguments. It is a co-management activity made by the end-to-end interaction and consultation between stakeholders, providing background, experience and know-how from their own sub-domain perspective, to ensure better and sustainable change management process. The PACAS modelling languages Essential concepts of the modelling language and methods defined for capturing the strategic objectives (related to economic, organisational, security, and safety aspects) of the ATM domain stakeholders. The models need to visualize organisational concerns, and how security, safety and costs are affected when introducing changes at the architectural level, without having information overload in a single view (for further details [3]). PACAS also offers a multi-criteria decision analysis service through three methods for its implementation. While for the aims of the project these results were deeply interconnected and mutually dependant, in setting the partners exploitation strategy they are dealt with as separate entities having the potential to be individually exploited University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

15 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION 2.4 Step 2 - Stakeholders identification Three classes of stakeholders have been identified that can be potentially interested in the research carried out in PACAS and in the output produced: 1) ATM POLICY MAKERS ATM Policy makers (e.g., EUROCONTROL) are in charge of setting the scene for changes in the ATM environment aiming at guaranteeing safety, increasing security, improving cost efficiency or enhancing performance. They are expected to be potentially interested in the PACAS platform as a means to support their decision-making process, based on a detailed analysis of the impact that the decision made could have on all the relevant dimensions of the system at concern. 2) AIR NAVIGATION SERVICE PROVIDERS Air Navigation Service Providers are in charge of organizing their activity in order to ensure safe and secure operations, though guaranteeing acceptable levels of performance and costefficiency. They are expected to be potentially interested in the PACAS platform as a means to support their internal decision-making process about changes to be introduced in the organization or at operational level, based on a detailed analysis of the impact that the decision made could have on all the relevant dimensions of their organizational system. 3) RESEARCHERS Researchers are in charge of studying the topics directly or indirectly addressed by the project. The output of the project can provide inputs or ideas to further exploit the research. Considering the level of maturity of the output produced by PACAS (i.e., TRL2) the consortium preferred to contain the stakeholders identification process and limit it to the ATM domain. Nevertheless, it does not exclude the possibility that the approach adopted in PACAS and the results produced could be prospectively relevant in other domains of application as well. A representative and authoritative sample of the first two classes of stakeholders listed above was involved in the PACAS Advisory Group and fully engaged in the activities of platform design and evaluation. The third group of stakeholders was also involved, although not represented by external stakeholders but by the members of the project consortium. The members of the Advisory Group tended to appreciate the work of the PACAS project and to look positively at further developments of the platform finalized to its operational application, thus revealing a high level of acceptance of the solution proposed and confirming the suitability of their identification as potential stakeholders. Their feedback and suggestions for further developments and operational usages are discussed in the SWOT analysis reported in section 2.6, concerning in particular: 2016 University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 15

16 EDITION the impact of the solutions in applicative usage scenarios the feasibility of the implementation of measures that shall ensure the sustained utilisation of the outputs by the target users and the appropriate tailoring of the project s methodology /products according to their needs the feasibility of follow-up activities for promising, but not yet established technical solutions after the project has ended. 2.5 Step 3 Analysis of PACAS Exploitable Results Step 3 of the PCAS Exploitation process concerns the analysis of PACAS Exploitable Results in terms of maturity level, SWOT analysis and IPR management. The analysis of such aspects is deemed essential for the definition of a suitable and applicable exploitation strategy, reported in section Maturity level According to the SESAR Project Handbook released in 2017 (edition ) [13], the SESAR Solution development life cycle is based on phases and gates. As evident from the following diagram (see Figure 4 extracted from the above mentioned document) Exploratory Research is expected to produce output with very low maturity level, corresponding to VO-V1 of the European Operational Concept Validation Model (E-OCVM) [14] which can be approximately considered equivalent to TRL 1. Figure 4 : Gates and phases of SESAR Solution development life cycle University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

17 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION The maturity level of the output produced by PACAS is slightly higher (TRL2) as requested by SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research: First Call for Research Projects under which the project was financed and as established in the project proposal [15]. This reflects the fact that in this specific call, the Exploratory Research was considered covering the first 3 maturity levels: Pre-TRL1 Scientific Research - Fundamental exploratory research investigating relevant scientific subjects and conducting feasibility studies looking for potential application areas in ATM, concentrating both on out-reach to other disciplines as well as educating within. TRL 1 Basic principles observed and reported - Exploring the transition from scientific research to applied research by bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to investigate the essential characteristics and behaviours of applications, systems and architectures. Descriptive tools are mathematical formulations or algorithms. TRL 2 Technology concept and/or application formulated - Applied research. Theory and scientific principles are focused on very specific application area(s) to perform the analysis to define the concept. Characteristics of the application are described. Analytical tools are developed for simulation or analysis of the application. The achievement of TRL2 is confirmed by the results of the validation activities carried out in the course of the project and documented in PACAS D5.2 Validation Report [9]. The same level of maturity (TRL2) has been assigned to the 3 exploitable results mentioned above, namely the PACAS Collaborative Platform, the PACAS Participatory Design Process and the PACAS Modelling Languages SWOT analysis This section presents the SWOT analysis of the PACAS exploitable results described above. The analysis relies on inputs provided by the Advisory Board members involved in the PACAS Final Validation Workshop (WS #3) held in Trento on December 6 th, Inputs were collected both during the workshop (by means of open feedback collection sessions and individual questionnaires) and after it, when they have been re-contacted by to further discuss Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities of the PACAS results in the perspective of their exploitation. This two-step data collection process was intended to ground the analysis on both spontaneous comments provided just after practicing with the PACAS components and on more consolidated and detached opinions matured after the validation event. The results of the SWOT analysis are essentially positive. The Advisory Board members reported favourable feedback about the outcomes of the PACAS project and, although being aware of the low TRL targeted and reached by the Exploratory Research project, tended to foresee interesting opportunities for their application both in SESAR and in the business environment as soon as ready. STRENGHTS and OPPORTUNITIES As already mentioned above, the Advisory Board members looked very positively at the possibility of using the PACAS components in the future both within SESAR and in their business environment in general. The PACAS platform in particular was considered innovative and flexible enough to have very strong practicalities in the business environment, particularly for problem-identification and 2016 University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 17

18 EDITION problem-solving processes and as investment supporting mechanism. The main strength reported concerns the active involvement of the stakeholders, underlining that multi-model reasoning and gamification foster interaction among stakeholders with different backgrounds, favour their communication and cooperation and engage them in maintaining a high level of commitment and motivation in the group activity. While discussing about opportunities, two interesting suggestions were collected to be taken into account in potential follow up activities to further extend its functionalities and possible applications: evaluate the opportunity to integrate the psychological perspective in the platform development process in order to examine in detail the issues associated with providing positive or negative feedback on challenges and with competition among stakeholders; evaluate the possibility for the PACAS platform to align and integrate with other traditional architecture tooling environments, like EATMA and SE-DMF thus producing a unique comprehensive package (which was explicitly defined impressive ). WEAKNESSES and THREATS A significant weakness of the PACAS components was detected in the gamification process embedded in the platform. Although gamification mechanisms were supposed to positively contribute to stimulate and favour cooperation and communication among stakeholders, the way gamification is used in the current version of the PACAS platform raised serious concerns of suitability to and (consequently) acceptability in the business environment. The threat highlighted by the Advisory Board members was in particular that the avatar-based gamification could give the impression of a childish and not enough reliable platform, generating in the potential user a refusal of the platform even before actually practicing with it. In order to overcome the problem the Advisory Board members gave the suggestion to simply replace the avatar with a more business oriented icon (like for example the bell used in EATMA or the Window s Assistant Clippy), without however changing the gamification process itself. A revision of the terminology used would be also recommended in order to make it more business-oriented University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

19 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION STRENGHTS Practicalities in problem identification, problem solving and and investment mechanism - Cooperation and communication among stakeholders with different background WEAKNESSES Avatar-based gamification unsuitable to business environment OPPORTUNITIES - integrate psychological persepctive - integration with traditional architecture tooling environments THREATS Users rejecting the platform due to the avatar considering the tool too childish and not suitable to business domain Figure 5 : SWOT Analysis IPR Management In accordance with Section 3.4 of the Grant Agreement (number ), since the Exploitable results of the PACAS project derive from a close cooperation among all Consortium members and it is possible to distinguish between the contributions of each of the project partners, such work is considered jointly owned by the contributing project partners. Should the products of PACAS become in the future inventions, all related patent applications and patents will be jointly owned by all contributing parties as well. 2.6 Step 4 Exploitation strategy definition In accordance with Article 28.1 of the Grant Agreement (number ), each beneficiary must up to four years after the period set out in Article 3 take measures aiming to ensure exploitation of its results (either directly or indirectly, in particular through transfer or licensing) by: using them in further research activities (outside the action) developing, creating or marketing a product or process creating and providing a service, or using them in standardisation activities. The PACAS Exploitation strategy was defined in agreement with this requirement, and using the information collected/defined in previous stages of the exploitation process described above. Following this approach, first of all individual exploitation strategies have been defined. They focus on individual exploitation initiatives that will be carried out by the partners individually University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 19

20 EDITION Two classes of exploitation activities have been identified for individual exploitation, namely academic initiatives and commercial initiatives. ACADEMIC INITIATIVES Academic exploitation initiatives refer to the use of the project results for scientific knowledge sharing within the scientific community. It is mainly carried out by means of scientific publications and improved teaching programmes and materials. This kind of activity (which one might be tempted to consider just internal re-use of the results) is instead considered a suitable component of the exploitation strategy as it reflects the mission of specific partners such as Universities and Research Institutes and is coherent with their goals in participating in research projects such as PACAS. COMMERCIAL INITIATIVE Commercial initiatives concern the use of PACAS results for profitable purposes. Considering the level of maturity of the project (TRL2) a subset of activities could be envisaged according to the list included in the Grant Agreement and above mentioned. They mainly focus on using them in further research activities or for extending (training) services already offered by the partner. The maturity of the PACAS exploitable results is in fact deemed too low to plan exploitation strategies based on developing, creating or marketing a product/process or creation of standardisation activities. The following table provides an overview of the individual strategies formulated by the PACAS partners, distinguished in academic and commercial initiatives. Details on partners individual exploitation strategies are included in the next section (see section 3). INDIVIDUAL EXPLOITATION STRATEGIES PARTNER ACADEMIC INITIATIVES COMMERCIAL INITIATIVES University of Trento Deep Blue SINTEF University of Utrecht Scientific publications Teaching programmes and materials Scientific publications Scientific publications Teaching programmes and materials New research and projects Consultancy and training activities New research and projects Further partnership Consultancy and training activities New research and projects Further partnership New research and projects Consultancy and training activities In addition to individual exploitation strategies, also a joint exploitation strategy has been defined. The joint exploitation strategy is intended to be performed by the PACAS Consortium as a whole within SESAR, in the event of a follow up project being funded and is described in Section 4. The overall exploitation strategy relies then on a high level roadmap based on two strands of activities: Joint exploitation and Individual exploitation University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

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22 EDITION Individual exploitation The PACAS Consortium includes one SME, two Universities and one large independent research organisation. Such different entities also have different exploitation needs and possibilities; therefore, partners exploitation paths differ from each other. Universities Large independent research organisation SME Publications Further partnerships Teaching programmes and materials (University and Master-level) New research and projects Consultancy and tranining activities Use of new changes assessement methodology based on participatory and gamification principles University of Trento Figure 6: PACAS individual exploitation paths UNITN, as an Italian EIT Node ( will exploit PACAS research results to drive and promote innovative projects both in the territory and in the ICT sector in Europe. PACAS results will be presented and proposed to both academic and industrial partners within EIT to further develop with them business ideas and explore new application scenarios. We define exploitation as making use of and deriving benefit from the project s outcomes that can be utilized in two different markets: (1) academic, and (2) commercial, going beyond the ATM sector. For what concerns the academic market, exploitation will consist: In making project results directly available to other research groups as well as to instructors of various courses themselves. At the bachelor level, we will present the PACAS approach to the students of the software engineering course, where they learn concepts related to modelling and multi-view approaches in representing different concerns. While at the master level, the direction on security and privacy offers a series of courses where similar topics are covered, and in particular the impact propagation techniques and automated reasoning are University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

23 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION at the core of understanding the implications of for instance risk on the business. Other relevant potential courses include: requirements engineering, business process management, organizational information systems, etc. Finally, we will exploit PACAS results through bachelor and master theses. In disseminating the new scientific knowledge produced within the project. In particular, scientific knowledge will be presented at scientific conferences and published in international peer-reviewed journals and eventually books. In particular, the focus of scientific activities will be on socio-technical systems, multi-view modelling, gamification mechanisms, software engineering processes and participatory decision. Apart from the papers presented in the dissemination report in D6.4, we intend to present PACAS to the following communities: Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 18), Requirements Engineering (RE 18), and Conceptual Modelling (ER 18). For what concerns the commercial market, exploitation will consist in making available the core proof-of-concept of the PACAS project, a delta of the platform, for experimentation and use. We will approach companies both in the Trentino territory and within the EIT Digital network. These activities are aimed at raising awareness of the PACAS approach, which will be measured by the number of downloads of the proof-of-concept (both the core and integrated framework), as well as that of the follow-up projects. Specifically, in two action lines within EIT similar research problems are encountered. For instance, the Digital Infrastructure Action Line is concerned with catalysing cooperation across the networking, computing and security domains, requiring a deep integration of different technologies that typically are only very loosely coupled. Distributed cloud solutions that are secure and privacy aware for real-time processing based on close integration of networking, computing and security will support new industry segments that are latency sensitive, such as the automotive industry. Understanding the impacts of design decisions and relevant changes will be necessary not only to support such integration, but also to understand the organizational and economic impacts. Similarly, the Digital Cities Action Line leverages the digital transformation of the cities through centralised, participative and collaborative interactions between city actors such as government, city service providers, industry, and citizens. This transformation requires supporting the collaboration among city actors, and deciding among potential new services to be deployed in addressing city problems Deep Blue Deep Blue will mainly exploit PACAS project results in its consultancy and training activities for public and private organisations in the Airport and Air Traffic Management domains and, more in general, in other similar complex socio-technical domains such as Maritime and Railways Transport, Healthcare and Oil & Gas domains. The problem of taking into account different views and the mutual interdependencies such as possible impacts and/or drawbacks and cascade effects when a change is needed in complex sociotechnical systems (e.g. the ATM) will become explosive in the future, because of increasing automation and tasks migration in these kinds of Systems University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 23

24 EDITION PACAS solutions will represent a very important contribution for the SESAR 2020 and 2050 programmes which target the re-definition and management of Single European Sky in next decades. Indeed, the collaborative platform and the participatory design process will help ATM stakeholders to actively discuss and envisioning how the operational and technological improvements developed by SESAR members and partners (namely SESAR Solutions [16]) could be effectively implemented and what could be the interdependencies, in terms of pro and cons, focusing on four main aspects: safety, security, organisational and economical. This will support in planning and designing future research programme. Furthermore, if the results from the project are promising enough and limited steps are required to turn the platform into a product, this could be used in collaboration with the EATMA portal to offer a holistic view of the ATM System and support ATM stakeholders in assessing projects results and integrat them. Finally, Deep Blue will further re-adapt PACAS solutions and ideas in future R&D proposals and projects on similar topics or on similar domains, also exploiting PACAS partnerships and collaborations Stiftelsen SINTEF SINTEF will exploit PACAS results to expand its already significant portfolio of research and development projects in the ATM industry. Being able to reason between multiple stakeholder views, as in the PACAS approach including security, safety, economic and organisational, will increase our ability to create unique collaborations between our own experts in each of the stakeholder groups, as well as other stakeholders in the projects we are involved in, both as researchers and consultants. For what concerns the work on PACAS modelling language and automated reasoning, it will be exploited in terms of scientific publications, and new project collaborations. For instance, SINTEF is responsible for the SESAR projects PJ19 (Content Integration), which aims to ensure that EATMA and AIRM continue to be aligned, and BEST, an exploratory research project which investigates semantic technologies to maximize the benefits of adopting SESAR s System Wide Information Management (SWIM). Participants from these projects and PACAS have discussed the opportunity to find synergies between these projects into a new proposal for SESAR 2020 Wave 2, where the use of ontologies and natural language processing can be applied on use cases from PACAS. Doing trade-offs between security, safety and financial costs is very much relevant to pursue for a new SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research project as well, since it has been suggested that "Cyber security risk-appetite from a Financial Perspective" should be one of the concept elements within an overall cyber security topic. Here, PACAS results would be excellent background for security prioritisation of SESAR solutions, and we foresee that we should involve insurance companies we already collaborate with in other fields. Furthermore, our research groups on information security, safety and ATM resilience will all benefit from the PACAS process in terms of developing knowledge and first-hand experience with serious games, which can potentially be applied to several challenges within each of these fields University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

25 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION Utrecht University A main exploitation path for Utrecht University will be applying for further funding from the SESAR 2020 programme in order to further test the validity of the approach in the larger scale and at a higher maturity level (the TRL of PACAS is 2). In particular, through the PACAS project, we have identified that the MEGA enterprises architecting platform is the official tool used in the domain to create (enterprise) models about air traffic management. Therefore, the most straightforward type of exploitation would concern the integration of the WP4 reasoning services in MEGA. This activity will be facilitated by the choice to implement the reasoning mechanisms as a service that is decoupled from the PACAS platform. The reasoning mechanisms, especially those based on natural language processing (Intelligent Cross- View Alignment and Change Impact Propagation), have been appreciated by the research community in the field of software engineering. As such, we plan to adapt and extend those mechanisms for use in the domain of complex, multi-perspective systems and software engineering. This will lead to seeking for funding from Horizon 2020 projects in other application areas. We originally expected that the business incubator UtrechtInc, affiliated with Utrecht University, could assist in the commercialization of some techniques. However, the maturity of the results shows that further research is necessary prior to this step. We will, however, keep supervising bachelor and master students on topics related to the WP4 reasoning services. If promising results are achieved through those efforts, we will engage the students in interactions with the business incubator. Another avenue for exploitation will be education. In particular, the reasoning services will be proposed as part of the Requirements Engineering course offered to the students from the Business Informatics master s programme. Furthermore, we are going to discuss with the lecturer of the Enterprise Architectures course whether such reasoning tools can also be embedded in that course. Finally, scientific publications will stem from the bricks laid down during the project. PACAS has been intense in terms of production of deliverables and development of the services, but the follow-up period will enable the team to further extend the reasoning services and disseminate them to a full extent in the research community in model-driven software engineering University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 25

26 EDITION Joint exploitation strategy Considering the low level of maturity of the PACAS tools and the positive feedback received by the Advisory Board members, the joint exploitation strategy considers the possibility to continue working together on the topic, and to pursuit the evolution of the PACAS toolkit within the SESAR framework in which it is has been invented. This seems the most effective and practical way to make the outcomes of PACAS evolving and reaching the higher level of maturity that is necessary to seriously consider them as products and ponder possible measures to commercially exploit them. It is in line with the Exploratory Research principles, fostering the introduction of new scientific, technology innovation and educational benefits to the ATM Community and the integration of Exploratory Research projects into the SESAR mainstream and future SESAR 2020 program as appropriate. In the case of PACAS, this latter aspect seems particularly suitable as the tools developed by the project (and here discussed as Exploitable Results) have already been tested within SESAR, proving to be potentially useful for supporting the design of new operational concepts and technologies being developed within SESAR. In the framework of the PACAS joint exploitation strategy, it would be then worth exploring the possibility of a follow-up project having the twofold purpose: to improve the PACAS tools and at the same give a support for the developed of selected solution projects. It could be achieved in a 3-year timeframe (ideally ) applying the PACAS toolkit iteratively to a selected group of three SESAR Solution Projects chosen on the basis of a set of criteria related not only to PACAS Needs, but also to projects aims and activities. An initial list of tentative selection criteria emerged from the experience gathered in PACAS includes projects: requiring collaborative decision-making among different stakeholders having an interest in studying the impact of their solution on the strategic layers considered by PACAS, namely economic, organizational, security, and safety having problems of balancing the impacts of specific decisions on the strategic layers considered by PACAS, namely economic, organizational, security, and safety In this respect, the nature of the solution being studied by the project is not relevant (i.e., whether it concerns the introduction of a new role, new airspace organization concept or new traffic management processes, etc). The key elements in fact to determine if the project is suitable or not for the application of the PACAS results concern its interest in the strategic layers and the need for collaborative decision-making processes. Each application will aim on the one side to validate, further refine the platform and bring it to a higher level of maturity, and on the other side to practically support the project in the combined analysis of possible implications of specific design options under discussion University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights

27 D6.5 ROADMAP FOR THE EXPLOITATION Imagining an iterative process based on 3 cycles of design and validation and assuming that the TRL of the toolkit will proportionally increase, at the end of the follow up project we (as ATM Community) could rely on a robust and mature platform (TRL6), ready to be put at disposal of all SESAR Solution projects and of the ATM Community. An initial cost benefit analysis of this joint exploitation strategy seems indicating possible positive effects of founding a new PACAS project having the aims described above. The application of the PACAS platform to the SESAR projects (both during its development process and even more afterwards) has the potential to: increase quality and robustness of the solution produced, ensuring that its final design is based on a combined and cooperative analysis of its implications on safety, security, organizational aspects and environment from the different perspectives of the various stakeholders involved reduce time and costs of the solution design and development process, contributing to early detection and exclusion of unsuitable design options The next chart gives a representation of the overall PACAS Exploitation Roadmap, including both Joint and Individual Exploitation Strategies University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights 27

28 EDITION Figure 7 : PACAS Exploitation Roadmap University of Trento, Deep Blue, SINTEF, Utrecht University. All rights