Manfred Jeusfeld

Virtual factories with knowledge-driven optimization (VF-KDO) is an eight-year research profile that is being coordinated by the University of Skövde. Research within this profile aims to help strengthen the competitiveness of Swedish industry.

The long-term vision of this research is to support knowledge-driven decision making in Swedish industry, which in turn can contribute to leverage their overall productivity and competitiveness.

The project evaluates the practical usability of the tools developed in the EU ISF project ELVIRA to assess the vulnerability of IT systems for critical infrastructure, particularly power grids. The evaluation will be conducted in collaboration with medium-sized electricity grid companies.

The Elvira project develops time-based infrastructure dependency analysis for the power-grid to model risk assessment and resilience index, which assist decision makers in anticipating failures and their cascading effects.

The Erasmus+ project OMI (Open Model Initiative) has the goal to create teaching material and an modeling environment for enterprise modeling to be used for master and PhD education in Europe.