Like most other industries, the Maritime and Energy sectors (M&E) wish to increase their productivity by using more and more advanced Integrated Software-Dependent Systems (ISDS) controlling for instance drilling and production, vessel propulsion, steering, and navigation. With more advanced functions come increased size and complexity of the software embedded in the ISDSs. This means that the owners and operators are more and more "betting their business" on the dependability of software while at the same time producing dependable software becomes more challenging.

There is therefore a growing awareness among owners, operators, builders, system integrators and suppliers in the M&E sector of the need to improve the methods and tools to specify, design, integrate, and verify ISDSs.

The ModelME! project is a joint research and development partnership between Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Simula Research Laboratory (SRL). Its purpose is to identify, tailor, and improve software engineering best practices for ISDSs in the M&E sector to enable safe continued growth of advanced functionality based on software.

The expected business benefits of the ModelME! project are:
  • Improved ISDS safety and dependability.
  • Increased trust in the ISDSs.
  • Increased budget and schedule accuracy for component development, system integration, component and system modification, and system commissioning projects.
  • More cost-effective and objective component certification.

To achieve the project's goals and business benefits, our applied research will devise, adapt, and evaluate state-of-the-art, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), verification and validation methods and tools to address the specific ISDS challenges of the M&E sector.

A brief description of the goals of the ModelME! Project and its directions is available as a downloadable leaflet .