On the 8th-9th of October, 2025, HAL4SDV partner Ahmed Khalaf from Aumovio participated in Driving The Future Symposium, hosted by the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (Technical University of Munich).

The aim of the event was to present and discuss current developments and research findings relating to the future of the automotive industry in the fields of automotive, artificial intelligence, software-defined vehicles and system architectures. The symposium gathered top leaders, researchers, and innovators from across academia and industry to shape the future of automotive software, AI, and system architectures.

At the symposium, Ahmed Khalaf presented his research on a proposed framework for Safely Evolving Architectures, the essence:

- Model Data, relationships, rules, and constraints before defining APIs → Real-world semantics drive interface design

- Domain-based decomposition (not functional decomposition) → Natural abstraction, Contains change propagation

- Distributed execution semantics → Modelling Communication via Messages and Events guarantees behaviour regardless of deployment architecture, middleware and communication protocols

- Platform-independent System specs → tackle both "Product" and "Production" requirements without missing out on non-functional aspects.

Building on rigorous and compatible approaches, Ahmed Khalaf proposes a minimal set of steps:

- Clean separation between platform-independent specification and implementation

- Objective conclusion of each step, independently of the following steps, ordered by change likelihood to support convergence

- Early testability of requirements, identification, and resolution of risks

- Deferred end-to-end optimization.

The Full Research paper will be published in theTUM DtF Symposium 2025 Proceedings.