{"title":"A selexSI solution to enable distributed decision making in Vessels Traffic Management","authors":"A. Napolitano, Dario Di Crescenzo, S. Gelli","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384122","url":null,"abstract":"The surveillance and control of maritime traffic, along with the management of wide area, such as ports and costs, need of the cooperation and coordination of manifold actors. The capacity of efficiently putting in place proper activities allows improving the safety and security of maritime transport forecasting promptly dangerous situations, collisions and threats, such as crossing of the boats close to the coasts or bridges and carrying dangerous goods in protect areas; enhancing maritime traffic for increasing capacity of the harbours, the navigation efficiency, and routes utilization; and supporting the actors during the Search and Rescue phases. The proposed Vessel Traffic Management System attempts to reach the above aims enabling the cooperation decision making among all the actors involved in each activity. In particular, the solution lets on the one hand of sharing information among all actors, improving their situation awareness during all the operative phases, and on the other hand of making decision aids to the operators in both the planning of the mission and in tactical activities. The modularity and scalability gained from the solution architecture allow utilizing the VTMS solution in different and heterogeneous environments, such as national maritime territory, rivers, waterways, etc.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131189942","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}
F. Matarese, Dario Di Crescenzo, A. Strano, F. Aligne, J. Mattioli
{"title":"An interoperable reconstruction and recovery decision support tool for complex crises situations","authors":"F. Matarese, Dario Di Crescenzo, A. Strano, F. Aligne, J. Mattioli","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384174","url":null,"abstract":"Today, more people than ever are threatened by crisis situations, both from natural origin or caused by malicious acts. These situations lead to both economic and humanitarian tragedies. Reconstruction and recovery operations are increasingly longer-lasting, costly and complex, especially when CBRN decontamination is necessary. Coordinated needs assessment, reconstruction and recovery planning can contribute significantly to mitigate the economic and humanitarian impact of such disasters; yet, no advanced software platform is available to support this process as a joint operation in which information is continuously updated and shared between the organisations, progress monitored and accountability facilitated. FP7 DESTRIERO project aims at developing an advanced net-centric information management tool, which structures and presents information to collaborative groups of (international) stakeholder organisations, supports damage and needs assessment and recovery planning. Based on international standards, procedures and methodologies, the tool will offer an integrated framework with innovative functionalities as described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"328 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133535447","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":"Using indicators for system complex safety","authors":"T. Tanzi, R. Textoris","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384189","url":null,"abstract":"In our modern societies, technological systems are taking on a large part in numerous domains such as automatic control, calculation, communication, information technologies, etc. They are put in place in more and more fields e.g. production, defense, national security, space, etc. These very important developments are offering new possibilities such as distributed cooperative and concurrent decision making based on complex dynamic systems or on advanced simulation capacities. To facilitate decision making in various fields such as transport, energy or even risk management, it is necessary to define indicators generated by such systems in order to deliver engineers or managers an image of the considered object and it's evolution. This image must be coherent, reliable and sustainable in order to participate at the decision in a complex sociotechnical environment. The aim of the article is to present our approach to define this category of new indicators.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123957267","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":"Reconstitution of Electromyographic Signals from Pen-Tip Velocity","authors":"I. Chihi, A. Abdelkrim, M. Benrejeb","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384201","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with a new identification approach, based on Recursive Least Squares algorithm (RLS) to reconstruct the electromyographic signals (EMG) of the forearm muscle. The present study uses the relationship between EMG signals and the velocities profiles of the pen-tip moving on (x, y) plane during the human handwriting motion. An experimental approach has been carried out to measure the forearm EMG signals and the pen-tip displacements on a digital writing tablet. These measurements are used to predict the electrotromyographic signals of the most active forearm signals during the human handwriting motion. In this research, a new third order, linear model is proposed to identify these muscular activities. Good qualitative and quantitative agreement was found between the proposed model response and the recorded experimental data. Quantitative agreement was found between traces and trajectories calculated with identified system.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129310625","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}
Y. S. Manjili, Amir Rajaee, M. Jamshidi, B. Kelley
{"title":"Intelligent decision making for energy management in microgrids with air pollution reduction policy","authors":"Y. S. Manjili, Amir Rajaee, M. Jamshidi, B. Kelley","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384132","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy Logic-based decision-making framework is implemented for energy management in microgrid systems in order to meet targets such as providing local consumers with required energy demand and making good revenue for the microgrid owner under a time-varying electricity cost policy while helping reduce negative environmental effects due to air polluting sources of electrical energy such as coal fire plants which operate in the main grid in order to provide local microgrid loads. Typically, a microgrid system has two modes of operation. It either works synchronously with the main grid or operates independently from the utility grid in an isolated mode. Distributed renewable energy generators including solar, wind in association with batteries and main grid supply power to the consumer in the microgrid network. One day period is divided to a finite number of time slots. The Fuzzy intelligent approach implemented in this article determines the rate at which power has to be delivered to/taken from the storage unit during the next time slot depending on the electricity price per kWh of energy, local load demand, electricity generation rate through renewable resources, and air pollution factor which are sampled at predetermined rates. Cost function is defined as the sum of balance/revenue due to electricity trade between microgrid and the main grid, which includes the power provided to local load and distribution losses. Five different scenarios are considered for local load and microgrid assembly operation. Measures of balance/revenue will be extracted to represent benefits of using Fuzzy logic for energy management in microgrids with air pollution reduction policy.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130093677","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":"‘Kony2012’ movement through a system of systems engineering lens","authors":"R. Smithson","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384207","url":null,"abstract":"The `Kony2012' movement set the record for the fastest growing viral video in history. In 30 minutes it turned many thousands of people around the world, with little to no prior knowledge of the case, into political activists. The mission of the system was to create autonomous and geographically diverse groups that would perform various tasks in order to place pressure on decision makers to take action against Joseph Kony, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Despite some initial success the system was fatally flawed and the emergent response of individuals `against' the movement lead to self-destruction. Lessons that can be learn from the `Kony2012' movement include; system transparency, garnering mass public response, and influencing the online community.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"48 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131003860","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":"Modeling and simulation for system reliability analysis: The RAMSAS method","authors":"A. Garro, A. Tundis","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384175","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the up-to-date version of RAMSAS, a recently proposed model-based method for the reliability analysis of systems through simulation. RAMSAS can be easy plugged in various phases of a typical system development process ranging from the design to the testing phases so to complement other well-known and wide adopted techniques for system reliability analysis (e. g. FMECA, FTA, RBD) by providing additional analysis capabilities. The present version of RAMSAS is the result of an intensive experimentation phase in several application domains (avionics, automotive, satellite) which allowed improving the effectiveness of the method especially in the modeling of both the intended and dysfunctional system behavior. The paper concludes with a discussion about the specific aspects of the reliability analysis of System of Systems (SoS), and how RAMSAS can be further extended to effectively support it.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116583269","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":"The originating concept: A foundation for System of Systems Architecting Decision Making","authors":"V. Arrichiello","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384146","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes an approach enabling the development of an artefact that can support the analysis of needs and definition of requirements, and make available, to the Architectural Decision-Making process, a “measurement tool” for the evaluation, based on criteria and performance parameters, of the overall effectiveness of the alternative solutions. The approach encourages the active involvement of the main stakeholders enabling the development of a shared understanding and the building of consensus. The information content of the artefact facilitates the generation of diverse alternative solutions and provides also a sound foundation for all the following development activities of the System of Systems.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124909690","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. Woodcock, Ana Cavalcanti, J. Fitzgerald, P. Larsen, Alvaro Miyazawa, Simon Perry
{"title":"Features of CML: A formal modelling language for Systems of Systems","authors":"J. Woodcock, Ana Cavalcanti, J. Fitzgerald, P. Larsen, Alvaro Miyazawa, Simon Perry","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2012.6384144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2012.6384144","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the initial design for CML, the first formal language specifically designed for modelling and analysing Systems of Systems (SoSs). It is presented through the use of an example: an SoS of independent telephone exchanges. Its overall behaviour is first specified as a communicating process: a centralised telephone exchange. This description is then refined into a network of telephone exchanges, each handling a partition of the set of subscribers (telephone users). The refinement is motivated by a non-functional requirement to minimise the cabling required to connect geographically distributed subscribers, who are clustered. The exchanges remain as independent systems with respect to their local subscribers, whose service is unaffected by the loss of remote exchanges.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122831698","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":"Proposal of Symbiosis ADS concept and negotiation support methods for cooperative resource allocation","authors":"Koichiro Iijima, T. Fukumoto, Michiki Nakano","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384157","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a conceptual system model for public infrastructure systems, the Symbiosis-Autonomous Decentralized System (Symbiosis-ADS) and negotiation support methods. In this conceptual model, each agent system is owned by an individual stakeholder in a city, including individual residents or companies, and operates autonomously depending on the owner's decisions. These agent systems disclose information about their resource consumption and supply to other agents. An agent that has over consumed (resource shortage) and another agent that has under consumed (resource surplus) communicate and make an agreement, then one gives or lends resources to the other (accommodation). For this conceptual model, we developed negotiation and planning methods for supporting each agent's and owners' decision making by minimizing the negative effect of information incompleteness and environmental uncertainty. With a prototype system and simulation, we evaluated the effectiveness of these negotiation methods in a situation with information incompleteness.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131605312","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}