Data-Centric Systems

Abstract This chapter delves more deeply into the nature of data-centric systems. It classifies systems that employ data into three categories. Increasingly machine learning facilitates the ability to allow systems to use data to make choices (decisions) that are more strategic with minimal direct human control. Decision models based on collected data and processing of that data are explored. There is a high degree of uncertainty inherent in this shift. Data veracity becomes a core challenge. Safety management of adaptive systems is important because of their rapidly changing nature.