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Towards Secure and Safe Appified Automated Vehicles
The advancement in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) has created an enormous market
for the development of self-driving functionalities,raising the question of how
it will transform the traditional vehicle development process. One adventurous
proposal is to open the AV platform to third-party developers, so that AV
functionalities can be developed in a crowd-sourcing way, which could provide
tangible benefits to both automakers and end users. Some pioneering companies
in the automotive industry have made the move to open the platform so that
developers are allowed to test their code on the road. Such openness, however,
brings serious security and safety issues by allowing untrusted code to run on
the vehicle. In this paper, we introduce the concept of an Appified AV platform
that opens the development framework to third-party developers. To further
address the safety challenges, we propose an enhanced appified AV design schema
called AVGuard, which focuses primarily on mitigating the threats brought about
by untrusted code, leveraging theory in the vehicle evaluation field, and
conducting program analysis techniques in the cybersecurity area. Our study
provides guidelines and suggested practice for the future design of open AV
platforms
Information Technology Platforms: Definition and Research Directions
The concept of an information technology (IT) related platform is broad and
covers phenomena ranging from the operating system Linux to the Internet. Such
platforms are of increasing importance to innovation and value creation across
many facets of industry and daily life. There is, however, a lack of common
understanding in both research and industry about what is mean by the term
platform when related to IT. This lack of consensus is detrimental to research
and knowledge development. Thus, the aims of this study are to: (i) provide a
sound definition of the IT-platform concept by identifying its distinguishing
dimensions; and (ii) identify important current research directions for the
IT-platform concept. To achieve these aims a systematic literature review was
undertaken with 133 relevant articles taken from major information systems
journals, conferences, and business publications. The study contributes by
providing a sound base for future research into IT-platforms.Comment: Research-in-progress ISBN# 978-0-646-95337-3 Presented at the
Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2015 (arXiv:1605.01032
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