Alexander Wichmann, Sven Jäger, Tino Jungebloud, Ralph Maschotta, A. Zimmermann
{"title":"System architecture optimization with runtime reconfiguration of simulation models","authors":"Alexander Wichmann, Sven Jäger, Tino Jungebloud, Ralph Maschotta, A. Zimmermann","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116826","url":null,"abstract":"The development of complex systems often leads to delays in integration and roll-out, massive cost overruns, and in many cases to sub-optimal solutions regarding system performance and robustness. In order to overcome these issues, model-based systems engineering methodologies can be employed. The application of simulation models in addition to system specifications increase the engineers' understanding of complex system behavior. The approach also allows the detection of incomplete or inconsistent functional requirements as well as other design failures.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124883867","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}
M. Omiciuolo, M. Thiel, K. Forster, K. Paetzold, R. Forstner
{"title":"General purpose modeling and domain specific simulation: A framework for space mechanisms design","authors":"M. Omiciuolo, M. Thiel, K. Forster, K. Paetzold, R. Forstner","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116849","url":null,"abstract":"The process of writing requirements specifications, designing, developing, and verifying high precision pointing space mechanisms currently relies on a domain specific simulation-centric approach extensively applied since the very early stages of a project. Space mechanisms requirements specifications often are driven by domain specific features, with many significant uncertainties, and requirements conflicts due to the lack of a holistic perspective. Specific domain simulations are run repeatedly under the given conditions. Such a process is highly inefficient for a company that either writes a requirements specification (manages subcontractors) or designs space mechanisms itself. A general purpose modeling method is proposed to accompany domain specific simulation methods. The resulting framework is proposed to be applied to high precision mechanisms of scientific space missions. Survey of the stakeholders and comparison of methodologies during the conceptual identification of the framework foster an object oriented model-based system engineering methodology and the general purpose SysML modeling languages as the basis for the general purpose modeling part of the framework. The domain specific simulation part is based on the implementation of existing tools under the overall supervision of the general purpose models.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116213803","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":"Efficient thermal modeling for distributed energy management in industrial buildings","authors":"A. Nagy, A. Bratukhin, T. Sauter","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116769","url":null,"abstract":"Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in large industrial or office buildings are complex systems with many data points that pose enormous challenges to engineering and control. From an engineering viewpoint, the classical, centralized approach of system design has obvious limitations in flexibility regarding later reconfigurations and layout changes during system operation. Moreover, a centralized control strategy is limited in terms of energy efficiency. Therefore, distributed schemes relying on single room controllers rather than a centralized HVAC controller are desirable. Such a scalable system setup will also facilitate engineering and re-engineering, e.g., by using a scalable function block approach. Accordingly, the actual control strategy has to rely on model-based predictive control implemented in the individual room controllers in a distributed manner. As such controllers are resource-limited devices, the models should be simple and computationally efficient, yet sufficiently accurate to represent the thermal behavior of the room together with its surroundings. This paper presents an analysis of various room models and proposes a minimum-complexity model. Simulation-based comparison with the state of the art demonstrate no significant loss of accuracy while reducing the implementation effort by 47 percent.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116323432","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}
M. Gepp, M. Foehr, J. Vollmar, Andreas Schertl, T. Schaeffler
{"title":"System integration in modularization and standardization programs","authors":"M. Gepp, M. Foehr, J. Vollmar, Andreas Schertl, T. Schaeffler","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116856","url":null,"abstract":"The Engineer-To-Order business, which encompasses companies producing a broad range of capital goods, is becoming increasingly complex. In order to improve their profitability, engineering organizations in this business use standardization programs. While decomposition aspects in such programs are already in an advanced state, the integration of components, modules or subsystems into a customer-specific solution as well as integration of engineering disciplines, life cycle phases and stakeholders are critical but yet neglected aspects. Therefore, the focus of this contribution lies on the role of system integration in standardization programs. It identifies various objects for integration from which seven types of integration with regard to modularization and standardization programs are derived. The analyses of this contribution are based on a literature review and case studies of six standardization programs.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115778235","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}
David M. Beskow, C. Rowe, J. Lee, Maxat Nugmanov, R. Vargas
{"title":"Data fusion for regionally aligned forces","authors":"David M. Beskow, C. Rowe, J. Lee, Maxat Nugmanov, R. Vargas","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116820","url":null,"abstract":"Today the U.S. Army is increasingly deploying regionally aligned brigades to new areas of interest while simultaneously placing greater emphasis on engagement, recently adding it to the Warfighting Functions. These regionally aligned forces often conduct engagement in unstable and austere environments with limited understanding of the primary actors. Traditional intelligence collection is often focused at the national level on the primary state and non-state actors in a region; but may not be complete at the granularity required to support these small-scale deployments. The open-source internet provides a wealth of information, but is often time-intensive to search and analogous to finding a “needle in a haystack” Our research will use Network Centrality metrics applied to the Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) to provide tactical commanders with a tool that identifies influential individuals at the sub-national level. This information will allow tactical leaders to make more informed in their operating environment.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116550089","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}
J. Kaugerand, J. Preden, E. Suurjaak, S. Astapov, L. Motus, R. Pahtma
{"title":"A System of Systems solution for perimeter control: Combining Unmanned Aerial System with unattended ground sensor network","authors":"J. Kaugerand, J. Preden, E. Suurjaak, S. Astapov, L. Motus, R. Pahtma","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116770","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a novel and practical System of Systems (SoS) approach for perimeter control in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) applications. The SoS combines an Unmanned autonomous Aerial System (UAS) with an Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) SoS in order to provide enhanced situation awareness to the users. A simple mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with an autopilot capable of waypoint navigation is equipped with additional hardware to become a UAS and is integrated with an existing UGS network, forming a System of Systems of heterogeneous systems. The systems in the resulting SoS are autonomous and they offer the generated information via a subscription based service architecture. The SoS described in the paper offers its detection and identification capabilities as services to external entities. The UGS nodes autonomously detect objects and phenomena of interest (based on information requests received from external entities) and by building up collective situation awareness they are able to classify the detected objects, involving the UAS in image acquisition if an object of interest has been classified. The data collected by the SoS is combined and delivered to the external entity that made the information request. The paper describes the creation of the UAS, its integration with an existing SoS and the evaluation of the performance of the resulting SoS.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130223297","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":"Reuse in model-based systems engineering","authors":"U. Shani, Henry Broodney","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116732","url":null,"abstract":"In model-based systems engineering, systems are built as models. Models are abstractions, since they are not the real physical parts, but a data representation of then in a computer. As such, it is tempting to establish a methodology and a system in which models can be shared among projects. When an engineer creates new models of components in a new project, her past experience in making similar components, as well as that of her colleagues, can be easily reused since no physical limitations get in the way. Models in our case are actually mathematical equations. Yet, the wide variety of design tools makes it difficult to take an existing component model created in one tool and reuse it in another. This problem is often classified as `tools interoperability' where models need to be shared among tools. Scenarios which give rise to such needs occur when teams collaborate on the same project, but belong to different organizations or different disciplines. Yet, the advantage of reuse is very obvious and presents a certain use case for interoperability. Our scenario would be a systems engineering organization that needs to support reuse in its design work. Our use-case would be different than the problem of product-lines. There, components are designed for ease of customization to match different, but similar requirements, while sharing one source that can be varied towards multiple different outcomes. Here, reuse can be applied too over a design for a product-line. Internet of Things (IoT) and design patterns will be looked at as well to be proper candidates to benefit from the approach to reuse as will be presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125590544","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":"Social media in emergency management advances, challenges and future directions","authors":"Sergio Luna, Michael J. Pennock","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116847","url":null,"abstract":"Natural and man-made disasters are an inevitable part of our lives. Therefore, emergency management strategies are developed to mitigate the impact of these unfortunate events. The introduction of social media into the domain of emergency management may bring several benefits. For instance, governments disseminate information regarding an incident to the community, citizens communicate their current status to family and friends, and also community members coordinate with each other. While there are obvious advantages to utilizing social media during emergency situations, there are risks as well. The efficacy of an emergency response approach that leverages social media is contingent upon the quality and credibility of the information transmitted via social media. Potential issues include misinterpretation by the public, false alarms, and the spread of counterproductive rumors. This paper presents a review of the recent literature and proposes a research framework to understand the influence and challenges of social media in the domain of emergency management.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134507744","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":"Resource allocation in cloud computing based on clustering method","authors":"Haohao Zhou, S. Deng, Hongbin Huang, Yahui Wu","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116799","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is a computing model based on Internet and computer technology. With the rapid development of cloud computing, scheduling of computing resources is more and more important to cloud systems. Most of the existing researches concerned resource allocation as a problem of task scheduling which is a paradigm of cloud service. In this paper, we consider another paradigm that is user-oriented. In this case, users apply resources from the cloud according to their demands with time interval and amount of computing and we propose a scheduling algorithm based on spectral clustering method through converting the scheduling problem to clustering problem. Experiments show that the scheduling algorithm can obtain fine resource utilization on the premise of QoS.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132252756","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 construction cost of hierarchical-modular structures","authors":"M. Efatmaneshnik, M. Ryan, S. U. Qaisar","doi":"10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116744","url":null,"abstract":"Modularity and hierarchy are sometimes used interchangeably. In this paper we provide a novel definition of modularity and hierarchy, as well as hierarchical-modularity. The effects of hierarchical-modularity on system characteristics including constructability is understudied. This paper presents a simple model for system constructability based on the construction cost estimated via a Baysian estimation method. We derive the construction cost of a hypothetical systems of nodes and links, under different scenarios. These scenarios include various linking success probabilities and various hierarchical configurations, including the number of hierarchical levels and number of modules within each hierarchy.","PeriodicalId":251318,"journal":{"name":"2015 Annual IEEE Systems Conference (SysCon) Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131159766","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}