Jerry M. Denman, Bob Dill, Parijat Dube, Amith Paruchuri, Li Zhang
{"title":"Identifying and managing performance risks in SOA based systems: A full life-cycle approach","authors":"Jerry M. Denman, Bob Dill, Parijat Dube, Amith Paruchuri, Li Zhang","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815814","url":null,"abstract":"We developed a novel approach for predictive system performance analysis during different stages of the system development life-cycle, beginning from the pre-design phase to the post production phase. By making use of innovative techniques and tools our approach predicts system performance based on available information. Thus, architectural changes and design tradeoffs can be made accordingly to ensure the system will satisfy functional and non-functional requirements of the target business scenario. The early identification and mitigation of performance pain-points ensures much more efficient utilization of available resources (time, man-hours, cost).","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"10 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132148185","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}
{"title":"System of Systems Engineering and Family of Systems Engineering from a standards, V-Model, and Dual-V Model perspective","authors":"John O. Clark","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815831","url":null,"abstract":"System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) and Family of Systems Engineering (FoSE) continue to be two of the least well-understood SE disciplines. Knowledge of the SE standards, the V-Model, and particularly the 3-dimensional Dual-V Model, significantly aid this understanding, including the relationship between SE, SoSE, and FoSE. The goals of this paper are to: 1) define SoS, SoSE, and FoSE from an SE standards perspective; 2) describe the original V-Model and the Dual-V Model; 3) show how to apply these SE standards and V-Models to a system, to SoSs, and to FoSs; and 4) encourage and challenge the participants to understand, select, tailor, and apply these SE standards and V-Models to complex SoSs and FoSs. Individuals may have an understanding of portions of SE, SoSE, and FoSE based on other sources. The SE standards, V-Model, and Dual-V Model provide a more complete and common understanding.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116356625","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}
{"title":"Net-centric system development","authors":"W. Henry, J. Stevens","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815772","url":null,"abstract":"The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is pursuing a systems philosophy known as net-centricity in an effort to address the rapidly changing nature of military actions across the globe. This philosophy leads to an enterprise consisting of increasingly complex interrelated systems. Numerous failures as well as dramatic cost and schedule overruns on these programs may be symptomatic of the failure of current system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies employed by the DoD. This paper examines the increasing complexity due to net-centricity and why this complexity may cause traditional SDLC methodologies to fail thus requiring a new methodology to address this level of complexity. The paper then builds on enterprise system engineering research, extant theory (e.g. complexity, control and systems theory) and existing agile development methods to develop a framework for a SDLC methodology tailored to address the unique characteristics of the complex systems inherent to net-centricity.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130558446","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}
{"title":"Analysis of ground control system for a Smart UAV","authors":"Joongwook Kim, C. Yoo","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815778","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the ground control system (GCS) of the Smart UAV at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI). The requirements, configuration and features of the GCS are detailed. And the functions of the pilot bay and observation bay are verified through the analysis of results from the ground and flight tests using a 40% scaled plane. It is also planned to develop a transmission console that provides remote receiving stations with visual information obtained from the UAVs.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121780255","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}
{"title":"Impact of RFID technology on economic order quantity models","authors":"Lakshmi Bhadrachalam, S. Chalasani, R. Boppana","doi":"10.1504/IJPQM.2011.039351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPQM.2011.039351","url":null,"abstract":"RFID has been adopted by many organizations in recent years. The existing inventory models — commonly used for reordering the products by the retailer — have been well studied for non-RFID implementations. In this paper, we modify these models to consider RFID implementations. The problem we address in this paper is how RFID implementations can affect the production models. RFID implementations incur additional costs, which is a disadvantage for organizations involved in the supply chain. However, the advantage of RFID is that it can make the supply chain continuously visible thus reducing the production lead times to zero or almost negligible. The key question we address is, if RFID technology is implemented, should the organization move to a different production model to reap the benefits of RFID implementations? This paper discusses the conditions under which an RFID implementation is beneficial compared to a non-RFID implementation for existing inventory models. We argue that, in most cases, changes to an organization's inventory model is required for an RFID implementation to be beneficial. We present detailed mathematical expressions and illustrate them with examples to support our claims.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122794996","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}
{"title":"Systems approach and discounting: A need to think globally and act globally","authors":"A. Malik","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815780","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues against using the practice of discounting and shows that both the time preference and the opportunity cost of capital arguments, put forward to justify discounting, are in conflict when we take the holistic approach to the environment. Both the time preference and the opportunity cost concepts are the tools to support the institution of interest. Using hierarchical systems approach argument the paper emphasizes that in order to save the super hierarchical system (humanity as a whole and biosphere as a whole in our case) the capitalist economic system has to undergo into the release phase to allow renewal through the emergence of an ecological economy so that the humanity and global ecosystem may persist.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123337872","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}
{"title":"Addressing challenges of hazard analysis in systems of systems","authors":"G. Despotou, R. Alexander, T. Kelly","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815793","url":null,"abstract":"Hazards are situations that can result in accidents. Depending on the domain, this can include loss of lives, injuries and economic or environmental disasters. For example, a common hazard in the aviation domain is in flight engine shutdown. Hazard analysis is the process of discovering hazards in a system. This activity has been performed for many years in safety engineering and is a straightforward activity in most domains. In recent years a new class of systems has emerged, distinguished from traditional (monolithic) systems by a combination of characteristics such as autonomous and independently developed components, increased complexity and geographic dispersion. These characteristics introduce a number of challenges for traditional hazard analysis. This paper describes these challenges and proposes two complementary approaches that address them: Dependability Deviation Analysis (DDA) and simulation-based hazard analysis (SimHAZAN). The paper then describes a model-driven approach that combines the two and thereby provides an underlying framework for their application during system development.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"306 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115548300","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}
{"title":"Improving the practice of systems engineering: Boot strapping grass roots success","authors":"G. Rebovich, J. DeRosa, D. Norman","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815820","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes how to use a positive deviance-inspired process for improving the practice of systems engineering, and how positive deviance fits into an evolutionary improvement strategy. It illustrates the process with examples from both systems engineering and cases studies outside of systems engineering. In particular we cite the experience of the team that authored the DoD Systems Engineering Guide for Systems of Systems (SoS) [Ref 1]. They developed a representation of how successful SoS engineering practitioners view and do systems engineering that is substantially different from their individual system counterparts. The cases outside of systems engineering relate to an antistarvation program in rural Vietnam and a 150-year old problem of inadequate hand scrubbing and infections in hospitals [Ref 2]. Even with substantial progress in technology, processes, and efficiencies, complex problems from enterprise systems engineering to nutrition to medical needs still stubbornly resist improvement. By using a positive deviance-inspired approach, this can be reversed.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125265504","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}
{"title":"Systems Engineering requirements for legacy DoD hardware upgrade and sustainment requirements definition, analysis, and validation","authors":"W. Gee","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815841","url":null,"abstract":"Modernization and sustainment efforts for legacy Department of Defense (DoD) electronic systems present Systems Engineers with unique challenges and opportunities to potentially increase or optimize legacy system performance. These efforts sometimes take the form of complete, top-level system replacement, but significant effort is often expended in updating and/or upgrading subsystems and circuits via replacement of specific obsolete components. This paper will present the motivation for applying systems engineering (SysE) efforts during the course of sustainment, discuss specific, relative engineering approaches, and provide examples of systems engineering applied to military electronic systems.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114752378","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}
{"title":"A new approach for computer-aided fault tree generation","authors":"A. Majdara, T. Wakabayashi","doi":"10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815817","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for automated fault tree generation is presented in this paper. In this method, every system is modeled as a set of components and flows. Each component is described by its function tables and state transition tables. Saving the designed components in a component library keeps them available for future use in other systems. A trace-back algorithm works on system model, and generates the required fault trees. Reencountered or inconsistent events are removed from the tree. The proposed approach is capable of modeling different types of systems having various kinds of components and connections. A sample system is presented to show how this method works.","PeriodicalId":131616,"journal":{"name":"2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129034084","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}