DEMoS Manifesto

TL;DR

The DEMoS manifesto advocates for a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to designing and deploying distributed embedded modular systems, emphasizing mastery across multiple disciplines for better system lifecycle management.

Contribution

It introduces DEMoS as a new class of systems combining distributed, embedded, and modular features with an interdisciplinary perspective for improved real-world application.

Findings

Highlights the importance of interdisciplinary mastery in system development

Proposes DEMoS as a holistic approach to distributed embedded systems

Emphasizes lifecycle benefits of interdisciplinary knowledge

Abstract

This is a manifesto for DEMoS, which is a Distributed Embedded Modular System, but also a manifesto addressing the need for more inter-/cross-disciplinary mastery of working knowledge related to installing this class of systems in the real world. There is somehow room for yet another class of systems - complementary to existing embedded systems - complementing distributed operating systems - which takes on an interdisciplinary cyber-physical-materiality approach, a dedicated holistic perspective that recognizes the true value of interdisciplinary mastery vs. the implicit and overlooked expense of narrow intra-disciplinary focus dominating much of systems development (e.g. EE, CE, CS, SE, and IS). Interdisciplinary mastery yields its accumulated value across the development, deployment, use, re-use, and decommission phases for this class of systems: DEMoS is a system architected to be locally distributed, embedded, and modular as outlined herein and with the additional goals of human interdisciplinary mastery in this context: A potential set of goals for developing and applying DEMoS can be found in UN Resolution 70/1.