Episodes
-
Presented on August 8, 2018 at 1PM ET by Dr. Barry Boehm, USC, SERCFor more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Systems and software qualities (SQs) are also known as non-functional requirements (NFRs). Where functional requirements (FRs) specify what a system should do, the NFRs specify how well the system should do them. Many of them, such as Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Usability, Affordability, Interoperability, and Adaptability, are often called âilities,â but not to the exclusion of other SQs such as Safety, Security, Resilience, Robustness, Accuracy, and Speed.In 2012, the US Department of Defense (DoD) identified seven Critical Technology Areas needing emphasis in its technology investments. One of them was called Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS). The SERC sponsor, the DoD Undersecretary for Systems Engineering, and the lead ERS research organization, the Army Engineering Research Center (ERC), held two workshops to explore what research was being addressed, and how the SERC could complement it. It turned out that the existing ERS research underway was primarily directed at field testing, supercomputer modeling, and resilient design of physical systems, and that the SERC could best complement this research by addressing the resilient design of cyber-physical-human (CPH) systems, Some of the SERC universities were performing such research, such as AFIT, Georgia Tech, MIT, NPS, Penn State, USC, U. Virginia, and Wayne State. These universities have been addressing aspects of this research area as a team since 2013.Initially, the team found a veritable quagmire of SQ definitions and relationships. For example, looking up âresilienceâ in Wikipedia, the team found over 20 different definitions of âresilience,â with over 10 different definitions of a systemâs post-resilient state. The leading standard in the area, ISO/IEC 25010, had weak and inconsistent definitions of the qualities. For example, it defined Reliability with respect to the satisfaction of a systemâs functional requirements, but not its quality requirements. Some of the SERC universities had developed partial ontologies of the SQs, and exploration of alternative ontology structures identified found one that addressed not only the inter-quality relationships, but also their sources of value variation. The talk will summarize how the ontology can help systems engineers query, qualify, and quantify the relations among the system qualities, and better address key qualities such as Maintainability.Bio: Dr. Barry Boehm received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1957, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1961 and 1964, all in Mathematics. He has also received honorary Sc.D. in Computer Science from the U. of Massachusetts in 2000 and in Software Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He is a Fellow of the ACM, AIAA, IEEE, and INCOSE, and a member of the NAE.While at USC, he has served as the Principal Investigator on major research contracts and grants from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, DARPA, ONR, AFRL, USAF-ESC, TACOM, NASA, FAA, and NSF. He has received industry research grants from over 25 industrial organizations. His real-client software engineering project course has successfully completed over 200 projects for USC-neighborhood clients and educated over 2000 students in an integrated approach to systems engineering and software engineering. He has published over 500 papers and books, with over 50,000 citations, and a Google Scholar h-index of 81
-
Presented on June 6, 2018 at 1PM ET by Phyllis Marbach, INCOSEFor more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Phyllis Marbach was involved in establishing how projects using agile methods plan, measure and report their earned value at Boeing. During the course of that work she acquired data from two projects and assisted the Government Accounting Office (GAO) with agile updates to the Scheduling and Cost Guides in 2015. Although, you may have heard that projects developed using agile cannot also use earned value management (EVM), this presentation will show how it can be done.Projects using agile practices should have an identified period of performance. During that period of performance releases are defined that have specific features or capabilities. This is called a Roadmap. Each release is planned during a release planning meeting where dependencies, critical path and float are defined. Each of the features in the Roadmap should be planned into the integrated management schedule as a work package. The detailed tasks of each feature are defined during the release planning and baselined when the work package is opened. Percent complete reporting of that feature, the high value work product in development, can be used for the EVM measures. So, even if a project is using agile practices they can apply EVM in reporting progress against their plans.BIO: Phyllis Marbach retired from The Boeing Company Defense Space and Security Division as a senior software engineer in 2016. Phyllis has over 35 years of experience in aerospace programs including satellite ground stations, chemical lasers, the International Space Station, and various propulsion systems. Phyllis was a Boeing Designated Expert in agile software development, software engineering and systems engineering. The past eight years in her role as an Agile Coach for Boeing, she coached commercial airplane, unmanned air systems, radio, avionics, and research programs. Currently she is a Scaled Agile Frameworkâą 4 Program Consultant and Immediate Past President of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Los Angeles chapter, the second largest chapter in the United States. Phyllis has a Master of Science degree in engineering from the University of California â Los Angeles.
-
Missing episodes?
-
Presented on April 4, 2018 at 1PM ET by Robin Yeman, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Lockheed Martin (LM) Information Systems and Global Solution, Agile/DevOpSec SMEFor more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: With each passing year software continues to grow and every industry regardless of their product uses software as an integral part of their value stream. That phenomenon is especially true in the government space where we deliver highly- critical systems such as aircraft, unmanned systems, missiles & guided weapons, and human space flight vehicles. Highly regulated environments not only require high quality low risk deliveries; they need to be secure. I believe using Agile methods will provide exactly that.Depending on individual experiences and varying context some projects continue to see Agile methods as risky however various studies and journals such as IEEE have shown Agile methods to deliver results in areas of quality, cost, and schedule across the commercial and government industries. Can those same Agile practices be leveraged to improve the level of security in our systems and reduce our risk exposure while the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand our system attack surfaces? In this presentation, we will discuss:- The difference between Agile and traditional Waterfall- How Agile practices enable security to be embedded in our systems from the start- Where security is inserted throughout all stages of the SDLC- Define the art of the possible for the future.Robin Yeman works for Lockheed Martin (LM) Information Systems and Global Solution in Northern Virginia as a Lockheed Martin Fellow. She has over 23 years of experience in software and IT, across multiple business areas building everything from Satellites to Submarines. She has been actively supporting and leading Agile programs at Scale both domestically and internationally for the last 15 years with multiple certifications including Scaled Agile Program Consultant, Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), CSP, CSM, CSPO, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, INCOSE Certified Systems Engineer, and ITIL Practitioner. She actively coaches and trains teams through in person coaching, Agile workshops, virtual training classes. She leads the Lockheed Martinâs Agile Community of Practice and Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year. Robin received her Masterâs Degree in Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
-
Presented on February 8, 2018 at 11AM ET by Dr. Jan Bosch, Professor of Software Engineering and Director or the Software Center at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: We are living in the most exciting time in the history of mankind. The last century has seen unprecedented improvements in the quality of the human condition and technology is at the heart of this progress. Now we are experiencing an even bigger leap as we move towards a new level of digitization and automation. Ranging from self-driving cars to factories without workers to societal infrastructure, every sensor and actuator is becoming connected and new applications that enable new opportunities are appearing daily. The fuel of this emerging connected, software-driven reality is software and the key challenge is to continuously deliver value to customers. The future of software business in this context is centered around three main developments: Speed, Data and Ecosystems. The focus on speed is concerned with the constantly increasing rate of deploying new software in the field. This continuous integration and deployment is no longer only the purview of internet companies but is also increasingly deployed in embedded systems. Second, data is concerned with the vast amounts of information collected from systems deployed in the field and the behavior of the users of these systems. Software businesses need to significantly improve their ability to exploit the value present in that data. Finally, ecosystems are concerned with the transition in many companies from doing everything in-house to strategic use of innovation partners and partners providing commodity functionality. The keynote addresses these three main developments, provides numerous examples from the Nordic and international industry and predicts the next steps that industry and academia need to engage in to remain competitive.Jan Bosch is Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between 11 large European companies (including Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Saab Defense, Jeppesen (Boeing), Siemens and Bosch) and five universities focused on software engineering excellence. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also led Intuitâs Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received a MS degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden. His research activities include evidence-based development, software architecture, innovation experiment systems, compositional software engineering, software ecosystems, software product families and software variability management. He is the author of several books including âDesign and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approachâ published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press) and âSpeed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven Worldâ published by Taylor and Francis, editor of several books and volumes and author of a significant number of research articles. He is editor for Journal of Systems and Software as well as Science of Computer Programming, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on numerous program committees and organized countless workshops.In the startup space, Jan is Chairman of the Board of Auqtus AB and, until recently, Fidesmo in Stockholm, Remente, in Gothenburg, Sweden. He serves on the advisory board of Assia Inc. in Redwood City, CA, Peltarion AB in Stockholm and Burt AB in Gothenburg, Sweden. Jan also runs a boutique consulting firm, Boschonian AB, that offers its clients support around the implications of digitalization including the management of R&D and innovation. For more information see his website: www.janbosch.com.
-
Presented on November 1, 2017 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET by Dr. William Scherlis, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon UniversityFor more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: There are diverse barriers to advancement of strong cybersecurity, and many of these derive from unresolved conflicts among equities relating to technical means for high assurance, allocation of risk and liability, identity and attribution, deterrence and active defense, product and process evaluation, and diffusion of technology. What are the prospects, from a technical and policy perspective, to address these conflicts in ways that will enable higher levels of security?BIO: William L. Scherlis is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) in the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He founded and led the CMU PhD Program in Software Engineering for its first decade of operation. He was Acting CTO for the Software Engineering Institute for 2012 and early 2013. Dr. Scherlis completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, a year at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) as a John Knox Fellow, and an A.B. at Harvard University in Applied Mathematics. His research relates to software assurance, cybersecurity, software analysis, and assured safe concurrency. Scherlis has testified before Congress on software sustainment, on information technology and innovation, and on roles for a Federal CIO. He interrupted his career at CMU to serve at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for six years, departing in 1993 as a senior executive. Scherlis chaired the National Research Council (NRC) study committee that produced the report Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense in 2010. He served multiple terms as a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT). He has been an advisor to major IT companies and a founder of CMU spin-off companies. Scherlis is a Fellow of the IEEE and a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
-
Presented on October 4, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Dr. Gary McGraw, Vice President Security Technology, Synopsys.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. ABSTRACT: Software security defects come in two categories: bugs in the implementation and flaws in the design. In the commercial marketplace, much more attention has been paid to finding and fixing bugs than has been paid to finding and fixing flaws. That is because automatically identifying bugs is a much easier problem than identifying design flaws. The IEEE Center for Secure Design was founded to address this issue head on. My presentation will cover the IEEE CSDâs first deliverable by introducing and discussing how to avoid the top ten software security flaws. The content was developed in concert with Twitter, Google, Cigital, HP, Sadosky Foundation of Argentina, George Washington University, Intel/McAfee, RSA, University of Washington, EMC, Harvard University, and Athens University of Economics and Business. During the talk, I will introduce and discuss how to avoid the top ten software security design flaws. Itâs important, of course, to know that these flaws account for half of the defects commonly encountered in software security. But more important still is learning how to avoid these problems when designing a new system or revisiting an existing system.BIO: Gary McGraw is the Vice President Security Technology of Synopsys (SNPS), a silicon valley company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of eight best selling books on this topic. His titles include Software Security, Exploiting Software, Building Secure Software, Java Security, Exploiting Online Games, and 6 other books; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. Dr. McGraw has also written over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authors a periodic security column for SearchSecurity, and is frequently quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top business and IT executives, Gary is on the Advisory Boards of Max Financial, NTrepid, and Ravenwhite. He has also served as a Board member of Cigital (acquired by Synopsys) and as Advisor to Dasient (acquired by Twitter), Fortify Software (acquired by HP), and Invotas (acquired by FireEye). His dual PhD is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University where he serves on the Deanâs Advisory Council for the School of Informatics. Gary produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for Synopsys and IEEE Security & Privacy magazine (syndicated by SearchSecurity).Gary McGraw, Ph.D.Personal Website: https://garymcgraw.comBook: www.swsec.com Twitter: @cigitalgem
-
Presented on August 2, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET - âHow Do We Prepare the People Who Will Need to Manage the Real-time Responses to Cyber Attacks on Physical Systems?â - Dr. Barry Horowitz / Dr. Inki Kim, University of VirginiaFor more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you.ABSTRACT: As part of an ongoing multi-year SERC Research Task led by University of Virginia, the research effort focuses on development of cyber attack resilience concepts for cyber-physical systems, an experimentally-based set of activities have been focused on exploring human factors issues. In particular, situations involving human operators have been simulated where cyber attacks have been detected by a dedicated monitoring sub-system (referred to as a Sentinel), and a system operator is alerted and provided with relevant system reconfiguration advisories. The simulated attack scenarios include possibilities for extreme events, including possibilities for killing or seriously injuring people. The research effort has focused on operator responses to the detections and advisories, including a collaboration project with the MITRE Corporation in a simulation activity at Creech Air Force Base involving pilots remotely controlling attacked UAVâs, and a collaboration project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) with the Air Force Institute of Technology involving experiments with 32 airmen remotely controlling attacked unmanned ground vehicles. The Creech Air Force Base effort raised a number of significant human factors questions that are especially pertinent to system reconfiguration responses to cyber attacks, while the more focused WPAFB experiments addressed the relationship between a particular operator behavioral characteristic (level of suspicion) and operator responses. The Talk provides the results from these efforts and their implications on operator selection and training, including identifying a broader set of needed integrated human factors and system design research activities focused on cyber attack resiliency.BIO: Dr. Horowitz is a SERC Research Council member in Trusted Systems and Principal investigator of a 6 year long research project (Security Engineering). He is also the director for the UVa research site of the National Science Foundation sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Re- search Center called WICAT (Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology). Prior to UVa, he was president and CEO of the MITRE Corporation. He received the Air Forceâs highest award for a civilian, is a member of the National Acad- emy of Engineering, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies, and was awarded the AFCEA Gold Medal of Engineering in 1990. Dr. Horowitz is currently serving as a member of the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Academy of Science, and has participated as a panel mem- ber on a variety of studies conducted by the Defense Science Board, the Army Science Board and the National Academy of Engineering.Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering, and a faculty advisor for Human Factors Student Chapter at the University of Virginia. His research interest focuses on experiment, simulation and modeling of human behaviors and performance while interacting with advanced technologies. He supervises a laboratory (HCSI: Human-Centered Systems and Innovation) to empirically test cognitive and physical responses of people in reality and Virtual/Augmented reality. During his Ph.D. program at Penn State, he developed a virtual haptic simulation for resident training, and it was recognized in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and the work contributed to winning research grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Before joining the Ph.D. program in 2009, he had conducted and supervised thirteen industry projects to improve usability and affective responses to various consumer products for IBM, Hyundai Motors, LG Electronics, LG chemical, and the Korea Railroad Corporation. Earlier during his M.S. program at Seoul National University, Korea, he built a statistical model to predict affective responses of cinema audiences based on the visual and auditory cues in movies, and the research was sponsored by the Korea Film Council.
-
Presented on June 7, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you.ABSTRACT: Cyber-social learning systems (CSLS) are purposeful socio-technical systems that learn. They learn how to perform much better over time, as manifested in continuous progress toward, and ultimately in the achievement and maintenance of, extraordinary levels of fitness for purpose. Learning in this sense is more like learning how to play the piano than learning that a proposition is true or learning what function generated given data. CSLSs are systems that learn to, and that then do, perform at virtuoso levels of quality. Many of todayâs most critical systems â for defense, healthcare, education, community services, transportation, energy and environment, etc. â are archaic, vastly under-performing, and unsustainable. The challenge is to put them on a path to becoming CSLSs. An audacious goal is to transform them into CSLS that exhibit dramatic improvements in performance within at most a decade or two. The results would include great reductions in cost and environmental impact while vastly improving the security, health, wellbeing, and quality of life of billions of people the U.S. and around the globe. The question of how to achieve the transformation of todayâs systems into cyber-social learning systems of the future was the subject of a series of workshops sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium, advisory to the National Science Foundation and other policy makers. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of cyber-social learning systems; the need for new scientific, engineering, and design foundations to enable their development; and a path toward such foundations based on convergent research that integrates computing, complex systems studies, the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, and other disciplines, along with test and evaluation in diverse domains of practice, to realize the vision of a world of interconnected cyber-social learning systems at scale.BIO: Kevin Sullivan joined the SERC as a researcher through the University of Virginia, where he serves as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 1987 and the MS and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 1994. His Ph.D. advisor was David Notkin. Dr. Sullivan received an NSF Career Award in 1995, the (first) ACM Computer Science Professor of the Year Award from undergraduate students in 1998, a University Teaching Fellowship in 1999, the Harold Morton Jr. Teaching Prize in 2000, and a Virginia Engineering Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship in 2003. Dr. Sullivanâs research interests are in software-intensive systems, in general, and in software engineering and languages. He recently served as associate editor for the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology, and on the program and executive committees of conferences including the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) and ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL). In addition, Dr. Sullivan is currently serving as a member of the SERC Research Council, providing guidance and insight for SERCâs growth of the Trusted Systems research area.
-
Presented on April 5, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you.ABSTRACT: A cognitive architecture is a hypothesis about the fixed structures comprising a mind, whether natural or artificial. It is analogous to a computer architecture in providing a general level of programmability, but concerns creating an inherently cognitive â or intelligent â system rather than simply a computational system. A complete cognitive architecture must support in real time the integration of memory and reasoning, decision making and planning, adaptation and learning, and interaction with both physical and social worlds. Even when less than complete, such systems can provide value as the minds of virtual humans, intelligent agents and robots; and as nascent unified theories of human cognition. Sigma is an attempt to build such an architecture from the ground up based on graphical models, a highly efficient, theoretically elegant, and broadly applicable technology for computing with complex multivariate expressions. The goal is to leverage this breadth in blending symbolic high-level cognition with quantitative low-level processing; this theoretical elegance in constructing the diversity of requisite intelligent functionality from interactions among a small very general set of primitives; and this efficiency to build systems capable of practical application. In this talk I will provide background on Sigma, how it works, and how far we have come towards a complete cognitive architecture.BIO: Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and Director for Cognitive Architecture Research at USCâs Institute for Creative Technologies. He was a key member of USCâs Information Sciences Institute for two decades, leading new directions activities over the second decade, and finishing his time there as Deputy Director. Earlier he was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (where he had also received his MS and PhD in computer science) and Stanford University (where he had also received his BS in mathematical sciences, with distinction). His research concentrates on cognitive architectures â models of the fixed structure underlying minds, whether natural or artificial â and on understanding the nature, structure and stature of computing as a scientific domain. He is: a Fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive Science Society; a co-developer of Soar, one of the longest standing and most well developed cognitive architectures, during much of its early evolution; the primary developer of Sigma, which blends insights from earlier architectures such as Soar with ideas from graphical models; and the author of On Computing: The Fourth Great Scientific Domain (MIT Press, 2012).
-
SERC Talks: "What is the Self?" Presented on February 1, 2017 at 1 PM EST by Grady Booch, IBM Research.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you.ABSTRACT: Imagine unleashing Watson in the physical world. Give it eyes, ears, and touch, then let it act in that world with hands and feet and a face, not just as an action of force but also as an action of influence. This is embodied cognition: by placing the cognitive power of Watson in a robot, in an avatar, in the walls of an operating room, conference room, or spacecraft, or even an object in your hand, we take Watsonâs ability to understand and reason and learn, and draw it closer to the natural ways in which humans live and work. In so doing, we augment individual human senses and abilities, giving Watson the ability see a patientâs complete medical condition, feel the flow of a supply chain, or orchestrate the tasks in a day in the life of an individual. At this touch point we encounter the intersection of big data and human presence, mediated by cognitive systems that reason and that converse with humans. Additionally, embodied cognition represents the extension of computing into the physical world, bringing cognition to the edge of the Internet of Things.BIO: Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering as well as the Chief Scientist for Watson/M at IBM Research where he leads IBMâs research and development for embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software. Grady is also a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM and IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and has given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was recently named an IEEE Computer Pioneer. He is currently deeply involved in the development of cognitive systems, and is also developing a major trans-media documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience.
-
SERC Talks! "Why is Human-Model Interactivity Important to the Future of Model-Centric Systems Engineering?â Presented on December 7, 2016 at 1 PM EST by Dr. Donna Rhodes and Dr. Adam Ross, MIT.For more information on this Talk and others, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/. Thank you.
-
Presented by Dr. Gary Witus: Associate Director for Student Programs, Anderson Institute; Associate Professor (Research), Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering at Wayne State University on October 19, 2016.For more information on the SERC Talks series, please visit: http://www.sercuarc.org/events/serc-talks/.
-
Presented by Dr. Mark Blackburn, Ms. Megan Clifford and Dr. Dinesh Verma on August 3, 2016.ABSTRACT: Model-centric engineering can be characterized as an overarching digital and visual approach to engineering. Digital technologies are changing how organizations are conceptualizing,architecting, designing, developing, producing, and sustaining. Some use model-centric environments for customer engagements, as well as design engineering analyses and review sessions. Some are integrating mission and system-level modeling and simulations originally created for design and development and expanding them into new cloud-like services enabled by the industrial Internet. Most organizations today have a unique capability realized by integrating commercial technologies and tools with their own innovations.The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) organized an Industry-Government Forum to gain insights from key stakeholders in the âuser communityâ on how to transform our engineering and acquisition culture in light of these advancements, how to align engineering and business/acquisition models; and explore ideas and concepts to improve the efficiencies, and speed development, deployment, and sustainment of needed capabilities to the user.The intent of this Forum was for key stakeholders in industry, government, and academia to converge and identify high-value âair gapsâ that remain as hurdles in model-centric engineering, and that can be addressed through focused research and policy. This presentation will highlight the primary insights and challenges identified during this forum. For more information: http://www.sercuarc.org/serc-talks/
-
Presentation on "Integrated Model Structure" by Louis Paper II, Doctoral Student under Cihan Dagli, both of Missouri University of Science and Technology in October 2014 for the Systems Engineering Research Center. Project: FILA-SoS Version 1.0
-
Presentation on "Cooperative System Negotiation Model" by Co-Principal Investigator: David Enke, Missouri University of Science and Technology in October 2014 for the Systems Engineering Research Center. Project: FILA-SoS
-
Presentation on Fuzzy-Genetic Optimization Model for the Systems Engineering Research Center by Louis Pape II on October 2014, then a SE Doctoral Student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, under Dr. Cihan Dagli.Project: FILA-SoS Version 1.0
- Show more
