Systems Engineering in Context

1. Front Matter

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2. Toward Achieving Architecture Alignment of Business and IT: A Portfolio Decision Analysis Approach

   • Mengmeng Zhang, Honghui Chen, Kalle Lyytinen

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3. Emergent Network of Systems Implication for System Design

   • James R. Enos, Roshanak Nilchiani

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4. Using Systems Engineering Ilities to Better Understand Resiliency

   • James R. Enos

   Pages 25-36

5. Military Enterprise Wireless Communications Architecture Power Analysis

   • Howen Fernando, Ronald Giachetti, Anthony Pollman

   Pages 37-46

6. Grand Challenges in Systems Engineering Education

   • Steven Hoffenson, Peggy Brouse, Don S. Gelosh, Michael Pafford, Larry D. Strawser, Jon Wade et al.

   Pages 47-59

7. The Joint Optimization of Critical Interdependent Infrastructure of an Electricity-Water-Gas System

   • Jie Cheng, Qishuai Liu, Qing Hui, Fred Choobineh

   Pages 61-73

8. Architecture Models for Coordination of Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles Conducting Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

   • Wyatt T. Middleton, Gregory Miller, Anthony Pollman

   Pages 75-83

9. A Dynamic Model of Military Suicide for Improved Understanding of Effects and Integration of Interventions

   • Ronald F. A. Woodaman

   Pages 85-96

10. Foundational and Precautionary Considerations for Value-Driven Tradespace Exploration and Analysis

    • Adam M. Ross, Matthew E. Fitzgerald, Randy K. Buchanan

    Pages 97-109

11. Designing Engineered Resilient Systems Using Set-Based Design

    • Zephan Wade, Gregory S. Parnell, Simon R. Goerger, Ed Pohl, Eric Specking

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12. Candidate Architecture for an Active Orbital Space Debris Removal System

    • Rastislav Hronco, Wilson N. Felder

    Pages 123-135

13. How Do Knowledge Domains Come Together in Systems?

    • Swaminathan Natarajan, Anand Kumar, Subhrojyoti Roy Chaudhuri, Niruj Mohan Ramanujam, Rajiv Banerjee, Amar Banerjee et al.

    Pages 137-150

14. Review and Constructive Definitions for Mathematically Engineered Systems as Categorical Interpretation

    • Chris Klesges

    Pages 151-172

15. Systems Engineering Grand Challenges in Security and Safety

    • Tom McDermott, Larry D. Strawser, Daryl Farber, Mike Yokell, Mark Walker

    Pages 173-182

16. Application of the Rayleigh Model to Predict Information Technology Program Cost and Schedule Performance

    • Rebekah Yang, Justin Coe, Benjamin Dryer, Matthew Cumpian, Maeve Budi, Matt Prebble et al.

    Pages 183-193

17. Integrating Set-Based Design into Cost Analysis

    • Randy K. Buchanan, James E. Richards, Christina H. Rinaudo, Simon R. Goerger

    Pages 195-204

18. A Proposed Application of Systems Engineering Principles to Healthcare Decision-Making: Evaluating Patient Decision Regret in the Treatment of Oropharyngeal Cancer

    • Robert T. Aarhus Jr., Edward Huang

    Pages 205-215

19. How Frustrations About Oversight Can Lead to Inefficiencies in Contractor Work

    • Samantha Brainard, Zoe Szajnfarber

    Pages 217-227

20. A Method to Use the SoS Explorer Application with Fuzzy-Genetic Algorithms to Support Military Veterans within Higher Education

    • Garrett P. Coffey, Cihan Dagli

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This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The CSER offers researchers in academia, industry, and government a common forum to present, discuss, and influence systems engineering research. It provides access to forward‐looking research from across the globe, by renowned academicians as well as perspectives from senior industry and government representatives. Co‐founded by the University of Southern California and Stevens Institute of Technology in 2003, CSER has become the preeminent event for researchers in systems engineering across the globe.

 Topics include though are not limited to the following:

Systems in context:

·         Formative methods: requirements

·         Integration, deployment, assurance

·         Human Factors

·         Safety and Security

Decisions/ Control & Design; Systems Modeling:

·         Optimization, Multiple Objectives, Synthesis

·         Risk and resiliency

·         Collaborative autonomy

·         Coordination and distributed decision-making

Prediction:

·         Prescriptive modeling; state estimation

·         Stochastic approximation, stochastic optimization and control

Integrative Data engineering:

·         Sensor Management

·         Design of Experiments

 

• INCOSE
• Integration, deployment, assurance of systems
• Human Factors and systems
• Safety and Security of Systems
• Systems Decisions
• Control and Design in Systems
• Systems Modeling
• Systems Optimization
• Multiple Objectives in Systems
• Risk and resiliency of Systems
• Collaborative autonomy of Systems
• Stochastic approximation
• stochastic optimization and control
• Integrative Data engineering
• Integrative Data engineering
• Integrative Data engineering
• Design of Experiments in Systems
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Stephen Adams, Peter A. Beling, James H. Lambert, William T. Scherer

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Cody H. Fleming

Dr. Stephen C. Adams is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Dr. Peter A. Beling is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Dr. James H. Lambert is Research Professor of Systems & Information Engineering, Research Professor of Engineering & Society, and Associate Director of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, at the University of Virginia. Professor William T. Scherer is an expert in systems engineering, stochastic control, and business analytics and has served on the University of Virginia Department of Systems and Information Engineering faculty since 1986.

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