PREMIS User Group is free and open for all PREMIS users. You can join the group, attend the meetings and get access to the group resources.
The main goal of the User Group is to share experiences and best practices of using assurance cases and the PREMIS tool.
We meet online on the second Thursday of each month. We have a specific topic for our discussion for each meeting. You can actively participate, share your opinions and hear about experiences of other members. You can also present your ideas, your approach for assurance cases and propose topics for discussion.
The next meeting: Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 15:00 CET / 14:00 GMT / 9:00 EST
The main topic of the meeting is Assurance case building blocks
Argument claims can be supported by evidence or argumentation strategies that decompose a given claim into supporting claims. The concept of assurance case blocks developer by Adelard is described in a few papers and in a mini-guide. It says that a claim can be supported by evidence or four types reasoning steps: concretion, substitution, decomposition and calculation. They are called argument building blocks. Each building block is defined with a simple argument pattern.
Can all assurance cases be decomposed into four types of reasoning steps? You can try to classify all strategies in your arguments to building blocks they represent. Is it working for your assurance cases? Would it be useful to use building blocks in an explicit way and let the tool guide the user with mini-patterns of the blocks? Would it make is easier to justify the reasoning when we follow the structure of building blocks?
We will discuss the assurance case building blocks approach and its practical use during the meeting.
To join PREMIS User Group meetings please fill in the form.
The membership is free and you can leave the group at any moment.
The topics discussed on the past meetings were:
‒ 13.03.2025: Managing Context in Modular Assurance Case
‒ 13.02.2025: Managing the confidence argument and defeaters
‒ 16.01.2025: Improving the way we assess assurance cases
‒ 12.12.2024: Assurance case reviews, assessment and improvement
‒ 14.11.2024: Argument assessment in PREMIS – experiences with implemented methods and new challenges
‒ 10.10.2024: Automatic data feed of the argument – a step towards dynamic assurance cases
‒ 12.09.2024: Managing Changing Product Liability Obligations Emerging from new Proposed EU Directive
‒ 13.06.2024: PREMIS – a containerized assurance case tool
‒ 09.05.2024: Context-aware assurance case templates
‒ 18.04.2024: Context management in modular assurance cases
‒ 14.03.2024: Modular Assurance of Complex Systems Using Contract-Based Design Principles
‒ 02.02.2024: How will AI change the way we work with assurance cases?
‒ 11.01.2024: Top-down development of a modular assurance case
‒ 14.12.2023: Controlling the argument with templates
‒ 09.11.2023: Assurance case templates and synchronization
‒ 12.10.2023: How to manage dependencies in cybersecurity modular assurance cases?
‒ 14.09.2023: Implementing modular argumentation in NOR-STA – a case study
‒ 15.06.2023: Improving modular assurance case management
‒ 11.05.2023: Making high-level assurance case management easier
‒ 13.04.2023: Planning new ways to manage assurance case architecture
‒ 09.03.2023: Managing issues in assurance case development process
‒ 09.02.2023: How do I want NOR-STA to interact with me?
‒ 12.01.2023: Assurance case development in NOR-STA – tips and tricks
‒ 08.12.2022: Assurance/conformance cases – where is the added value?
‒ 10.11.2022: Challenges of assurance case portfolio management
‒ 13.10.2022: Information flow in assurance case automation
‒ 08.09.2022: Automation in assurance case development
‒ 09.06.2022: Security Protection Profiles for systems components
‒ 12.05.2022: Managing assumptions in modular assurance cases
‒ 21.04.2022: Assumptions management – demonstrators in NOR-STA
‒ 10.03.2022: Assumptions – their place and role in assurance cases
‒ 10.02.2022: Assurance case integration in the system tool chain
‒ 13.01.2022: How to keep arguments up-to-date when evidence changes?
‒ 09.12.2021: How to integrate assurance case process with the system life cycle?
‒ 18.11.2021: Making assurance case process agile
‒ 14.10.2021: Assurance case management with metadata
‒ 09.09.2021: Assurance case quality and assessment
‒ 10.06.2021: What we have learned – Assurance process summary
‒ 20.05.2021: The present and future of argument assessment in NOR-STA
‒ 08.04.2021: Argument development/assessment process
‒ 11.03.2021: Continuous assurance/conformance
‒ 11.02.2021: What is a good assurance case?
‒ 14.01.2021: Modular arguments
When you have any questions related to the User Group please contact us at nug@argevide.com.