Validation
Critical-Chains is to be validated within 4 case studies aligned with 3 critical sectors as follows:
- Banking
- Financial market infrastructures
- Insurance sector
This will evaluate system reliability, usability, user-acceptance, social acceptability, ethical, legal, privacy protection, environmental and legal compliance through the scrutiny of the Key performance Indicators, societal impacts and the geo-political and legal framework bridging the European economy with the rest of the world.
Evaluation & Refinement Methodology
The Critical-Chains research and innovation will follow a methodologically-guided user-centred iterative system development and refinement re-engineering approach including e.g. interpretivist normative and context-aware methodological frameworks such as UI-REF to ensure socially and ethically responsible and responsive research and innovation in full compliance with privacy-preserving and accountability regulations and standards.
Use-Cases
Critical-Chains is to deliver and validate its innovation objectives within three Horizontal Use-Cases and one Vertical use-case as follows:
Horizontal Use-Cases
- Banking Case #1 (contracting and transactions between companies)
- Banking Case #2 (Interoperable Account Management)
- Insurance Case Study (Claims Settlement Process)
- CCP Case Study (Clearing Settlement)
Vertical Use-Case
- Transportation Case Study (Electronic toll collection & back-office support operations)