Product service systems (PSS) can be understood as an innovation / business strategy that includes a set of products and services that are embedded into an actor network. This paper presents the concept of PSS-System of Systems. We present how existing PSS and system of systems design approaches can be applied to PSS-SoS design.

Abstract. In this paper we present an approach to the cooperative transport of multiple objects in swarm robotics. The approach is motivated by the observation that the performance of cooperative transport in insect colonies as well as in groups of robots grows in a super linear way with the number of individuals participating in the transport. The transport relies on a cart in which multiple objects are collected and stored before being moved to destination. The cart is carried by a group of robot that would be otherwise allocated to the transport of single objects. The cart is endowed with computational and communication abilities that allow it to cooperate with the transporting robots. This research is carried out within the framework of the Swarmanoid project and aims at enhancing the transport capabilities of the robot swarms developed in this project.

To confront current market changes, Set-Based Design (SBD) should help carmakers improve time, cost and quality in early design phase. In a development process using ever more computer experiments, building predictive models of the solution space is key to implementing SBD. The present article proposes a new algorithm to build high quality predictive metamodels efficiently and tests it on several benchmark problems. Promising results are obtained. We believe such models could be used for several purpose in design: implementing SBD, optimisation and generating feasible concepts, among others.