Autor: Christoph de Beer

In many industries, neutral data platforms are currently being developed for data acquisition, data preparation and processing and subsequent provision to commercial users, public authorities (e.g. statistical offices) or security agencies. Downstream and separated from the data platform, commercial services will then be developed on the corresponding service platforms. Examples of service platforms in the aviation environment are Aviatar, Skywise or AnalytX. The interaction of the platform and service entities, possibly even across industries and with public institutions, has not yet been conclusively researched and established both on the technical level with regard to data security, data quality, data classification and data assignment to categories such as personal, security-relevant, anonymous only etc. and on the legal level with regard to data sovereignty, intellectual property and observance of aviation-specific regulations.

Autonomous control strategies for production logistic processes have already demonstrated their effectiveness on the shop-floor level. This article can be understood as a proof of concept: It is exemplarily shown that a pheromone-based autonomous control strategy can lead to better performance than a central control system when applied to a production network regarding production and transport logistic processes in a holistic way.