dc.description.abstract | Over the past three decades, information and communication technologies have
filled our daily life with great comfort and convenience. As the technology keeps
evolving, user expectations for more challenging cases that can benefit from advanced
information and communication technologies are increasing, e.g., the scenario
of Integrated Operations (IO) for ships in the maritime domain.
However, to realize integrated operations for ships is a complex task that involves
addressing problems such as interoperability among heterogeneous operation
applications and connectivity within harsh maritime communication environments.
The common approach was to tackle these challenges separately by service
integration and communication integration, respectively: each utilizes optimized
and independent implementations. Separate solutions work fine within their own
contexts, whereas conflicts and inconsistencies can be identified by integrating them
together for specific maritime scenarios. Therefore, connection between separate
solutions needs to be studied.
In this dissertation, we first take a look at complex systems to obtain useful
methodologies applied to integrated operations for ships. Then we study IO of
ships from different perspectives and divide the complex task into sub-tasks. We
explore separate approaches to these sub-tasks, examine the connection in between,
resolve inconsistencies if there are any, and continue the exploration process till a
compatible and integrated solution can be accomplished. In general, this journey
represents our argument for an integration-oriented complex system development
approach. In concrete, it shows the way on how to achieve IO of ships by both
providing connectivity in harsh communication environments and allowing interoperability
among heterogeneous operation applications, and most importantly by
ensuring the synergy in between. This synergy also gives hints on the evolution
towards a next generation network architecture for the future Internet. | no_NO |