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A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach for Trucking Fleet Replacement 基于模型的系统工程方法用于卡车车队的更新换代

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13198

Sean Bumgarner, Sarah Rudder, Jeremy S. Daily

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INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13172

Anthony J Quayle

{"title":"SYSTEM REVISITED – AGAIN","authors":"Anthony J Quayle","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13172","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the revised foundational definitions of system and systems engineering in the recently published (2023) fifth edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook. The new INCOSE definitions derive from an earlier INCOSE Fellows' Initiative on System and Systems Engineering Definitions that began in 2016 and finally reported in 2019. After introducing the concept of system and reviewing the new definition, the paper concludes that the concept, not rooted in a single science or exemplar domain, is so pervasive as be a meta-concept that does not have a dominant scientific definition. It proposes further work towards a more scientific definition of an engineered or artificial system – the primary interest of INCOSE – at a lower level of abstraction.While the authors define systems engineering functionally as a process or approach, we see the essence of systems engineering as abstraction. Using the more accepted metaphysical distinction between the real, virtual, and abstract, we define the output of systems engineering as an abstract (simplified symbolic) representation or model that is the basis for defining the real; firstly, the virtual representation of something not (yet) existing physically but made to appear so and, finally, the physical. Thus, we position systems engineering as the abstract phase within a three-phase abstract-virtual-physical engineering design and realization process.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"716-724"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Implementation of a Technical Peer Review Process: Principles, Policy, and Cultural Change 实施技术同行评审程序：原则、政策和文化变革

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13266

Francisco Alvarez, Leslie Britt, Jon Trujillo

{"title":"Implementation of a Technical Peer Review Process: Principles, Policy, and Cultural Change","authors":"Francisco Alvarez, Leslie Britt, Jon Trujillo","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13266","url":null,"abstract":"The complex scientific and engineering work performed at Sandia National Laboratories is supported by a comprehensive system of reviews that include design, gate, and peer reviews. A recent exercise revealed a need to change how technical peer reviews are conducted. Building on industry standards, best practices, current standard internal practices and other previous work, Sandia has developed a continuous improvement process to institutionalize technical peer review in the design lifecycle of products. The approach focuses on translating customer and leadership expectations, utilizing current established practices, simplifying planning and execution, and providing resources to project teams to guide them and ensure that rigorous and consistent technical peer reviews are performed. This paper presents the process used by Sandia to improve the technical peer review process, the factors that affect implementation of a peer review process, the simplified three-step process implemented, the tools and resources generated, and the sustainment plan adopted to increase the institution-wide use of peer review as a tool to improve product delivery.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"2225-2235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Nature of Technical Debt in the Development of Descriptive Models for MBSE 开发 MBSE 描述性模型中的技术债务性质

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13160

Ryan A. Noguchi

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Lifecycle of Accident Pathogens: Common Systemic Factors in Construction System Accidents 事故病原体的生命周期：建筑系统事故中常见的系统因素

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13219

Takaharu Igarashi, Karen Marais

{"title":"Lifecycle of Accident Pathogens: Common Systemic Factors in Construction System Accidents","authors":"Takaharu Igarashi, Karen Marais","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13219","url":null,"abstract":"Construction system accidents are accidents due to defects embedded in the constructed systems (e.g., buildings, bridges, and other infrastructures) originating from failures in construction systems, which we can consider as organic and ephemeral temporary multi-organizations (TMOs). Understanding the mechanisms of such accidents in transient and multi-organizational systems requires a system-wide perspective and consideration of the temporary aspect. This paper examines six accident cases using the framed-and-layered accident pathogen propagation (FLAPP) model—-an accident model we specifically developed to capture system-wide factors and the time dimension—-and identifies five types of pathogen threads and eight types of thread elements that contribute to the propagation of latent failures and defects, i.e., accident pathogens. With concrete reference to the processes and products found in accident cases, the concept of pathogen thread provides an explicit structure to the classic metaphor of pathogens that the safety literature has been using to describe latent failures. This paper further proposes the concepts of pathogen susceptibility and transmissibility to explain the mechanisms and dynamics that drive the generation and propagation of accident pathogens. Acknowledging the limitations of the modeling framework, this paper concludes with a discussion of lessons for systems engineering practices and directions for future work to ensure system safety in the construction of systems in various domains.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"1463-1481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Traceability – A vision for now and tomorrow 可追溯性--现在和未来的愿景

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13194

Adriana D'Souza, Louis S. Wheatcraft, Tami Katz, A. Larry Gurule, Michael J. Ryan, Aleksander Przybylo

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A Classical Modernization of the V-Model V 模式的经典现代化

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13177

William J. Barnum, William Fisher, Mark W. Winstead, Stephen J. Walsh

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Tactical Network Bandwidth Analysis: Application of the Wearables Model-Based Systems Engineering - System Architecture (MBSE-SA) 战术网络带宽分析：可穿戴设备的应用基于模型的系统工程--系统架构（MBSE-SA）

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13166

Jillian Cyr, Tara Sarathi, Jim Balcius, Michael Shatz

{"title":"Tactical Network Bandwidth Analysis: Application of the Wearables Model-Based Systems Engineering - System Architecture (MBSE-SA)","authors":"Jillian Cyr, Tara Sarathi, Jim Balcius, Michael Shatz","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13166","url":null,"abstract":"Warfighters are often exposed to harsh environmental conditions, and experience high rates of physical and cognitive stress, fatigue, and infections, resulting in the degradation of their health and physical performance. This degradation can have a profound effect on the readiness of military forces. Wearable sensor systems can be used to monitor warfighter physiological and cognitive data, providing insight into their health status during routine military training and deployed operations; however, to enable a real-time, tactical health and performance monitoring capability, wearable sensor systems must integrate into existing tactical military information networks without compromising network function. We extended our existing Wearables Model-Based System Engineering – System Architecture (MBSE-SA) to include a bandwidth simulation to analyze the effects wearable sensor systems have on overall network function specifically for military use cases. Our Wearables MBSE-SA enabled us to model many notional and existing architectures, which represent the wide range of wearable sensor devices, communication protocols, end user devices, and tactical network nodes typically present in operational environments. By taking advantage of the existing Wearables MBSE-SA framework and architectures, the resulting bandwidth simulation rapidly assessed several existing military network architectures for wearable sensor system integration and identified where network changes were required. Validating the flexibility of the Wearables MBSE-SA to incorporate new analyses was critical for the military's ability to explore wearable sensor system trades and evaluate architectures in the quickly changing wearable systems technology domain.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"614-630"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Case Studies for Complexity Pattern Identification 复杂模式识别案例研究

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13162

Andrew C Pickard, Richard Beasley, Dean Beale, Dorothy McKinney, Rudolph Oosthuizen, Dave Stewart, Kenneth Cureton, Chandru Mirchandani

{"title":"Case Studies for Complexity Pattern Identification","authors":"Andrew C Pickard, Richard Beasley, Dean Beale, Dorothy McKinney, Rudolph Oosthuizen, Dave Stewart, Kenneth Cureton, Chandru Mirchandani","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13162","url":null,"abstract":"The INCOSE Complex Systems Working Group Heuristics Team has selected 67 Principles and Heuristics that are considered to be particularly relevant to Complex Systems. These have been incorporated into a Difficulty Assessment Tool that prioritizes the list of Principles and Heuristics based on scoring of a matrix of four Difficulty Elements and six System Elements (to characterize the nature of the complexity).The purpose of this paper is to describe an initial assessment of the effectiveness and usefulness of the Difficulty Assessment Tool. The Tool has been used to assess eight Case Studies by five assessment teams — one with three people working together, one with two people and the remaining three with individual assessments.The results of these assessments have been compared using four different correlation methods, using the total weighted Heuristic score, the maximum weighted Heuristic score, a Match / Mismatch analysis of the top fifteen and bottom seven Heuristics, and a difference ranking between pairs of assessors of all 67 Principles and Heuristics. The last two assessment methods are shown to be more insightful.The assessment teams then reviewed the relevance of the highest and lowest-ranked Principles and Heuristics to the full Case Study definitions (Problem and Outcome). There is good agreement of relevance for the highest-ranking Principles and Heuristics, less so for the lowest-ranking ones. Based on this initial assessment, the DAT shows promise to help people develop complex systems.The paper concludes with recommendations for further assessment of the Difficulty Assessment Tool.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"544-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Model-Based Decision Support using Test and Evaluation: A Lightweight Architecture Approach 使用测试和评估的基于模型的决策支持：轻量级架构方法

INCOSE International Symposium Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/iis2.13152

Dr. Awele Anyanhun CSEP, Dr. Craig Arndt ESEP, Dr. Jeremy Werner

{"title":"Model-Based Decision Support using Test and Evaluation: A Lightweight Architecture Approach","authors":"Dr. Awele Anyanhun CSEP, Dr. Craig Arndt ESEP, Dr. Jeremy Werner","doi":"10.1002/iis2.13152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/iis2.13152","url":null,"abstract":"A standardized decision support tool to support test prioritization and decision-making is a prerequisite to achieving on-time delivery of weapon systems that are adequately tested and vetted by decision makers within distributed organizations such as the defense industrial base. However, to achieve standardization, the core principles of systems thinking and systems engineering must be utilized in order to realize a holistic and evolvable process and product that integrates Test & Evaluation (T&E) data and information with decision-making in a consistent format to support program offices. To address this need, a model-based reference architecture for the standardization of the Integrated Decision Support Key (IDSK) data and decision formats is presented in this paper. The IDSK is a DoD-mandated decision support tool (artifact) for capturing a program's decisions and the T&E information necessary to support the decisions. The digital-IDSK reference architecture proposed is developed using a model-based systems engineering approach and facilitates the generation of standardized data and decision formats that are tailorable, adaptable to incremental future changes, and easy to integrate with other digital engineering artifacts all within a digital engineering ecosystem. In addition, this approach is also applicable not only to defense-based organizations, but also finds utility within organizations pivoting to a digital engineering strategy for informing product T&E decision-making.","PeriodicalId":100663,"journal":{"name":"INCOSE International Symposium","volume":"34 1","pages":"367-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142165414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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