{"title":"Modelling Systems-of-Systems: Issues and possible solutions","authors":"C. Wrigley","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384124","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a problem with current Systems modelling techniques when applied to Systems-of-Systems (SoS) - namely that in the SoS case, the composition and boundary of the SoS is often only defined transiently and that a System may also form part of several SoSs simultaneously. Therefore there is no longer a simple mapping from an operational view of requirements to the system of systems which enact the required capabilities. This calls into question whether current modelling methods and capability-based procurement paradigms are sufficiently dynamic and flexible to cover future SoS architectures. The paper discusses the attributes required of a modelling approach which attempts to address this problem.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"6 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":"117168137","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}
A. Napolitano, Massimo Loffreda, Dario Di Crescenzo
{"title":"A framework for enabling an integrated and proactive decision making in airport systems","authors":"A. Napolitano, Massimo Loffreda, Dario Di Crescenzo","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384134","url":null,"abstract":"Airport systems stands for one of most important and essential asset within the transport system of a country. The air transport liberalization has promoted the air traffic growth with a consequential cost reduction to the passengers and air carriers. In turn, this growth is moving the main airports towards the saturation, affecting the performance and quality of the services provided to the passengers. Some analyses, indeed, foresee that the capacity of the airports, in the management of the aircrafts and passengers, will likely be the bottleneck of the air transport growth. Hence, airport capacity needs to be improved. The common and agreed view for succeeding to this goal moves to the optimization and orchestration of the available resources within the airport. To do that, the interoperability and cooperation among stakeholders, operating in the airport, often with different purposes, has to be rethought, along with the development of novel technological systems enabling and supporting this process. To this aim, the paper proposes a new framework that enabling the information interoperability on the top of classic data interoperability among heterogeneous stakeholders (often legacy systems) operating both in airside and landside area and provides a net-centric orchestration service capable of forecasting and promptly optimizing the choices of the stakeholders with the aim addressed to the airport performance as a whole.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"20 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":"115308823","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. P. Fanti, G. Pedroncelli, G. Stecco, W. Ukovich
{"title":"Modeling and Optimization of Aircraft Trajectories: A review","authors":"M. P. Fanti, G. Pedroncelli, G. Stecco, W. Ukovich","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384209","url":null,"abstract":"An important problem of the Air Traffic Management is the determination and optimization of safe aircraft trajectories in order to avoid hazardous weather regions and other aircrafts. This paper presents a review of the main approaches about the modeling and optimization of the aircraft trajectories pursuing two main objectives: i) resolving conflicts with other aircrafts; ii) avoiding hazardous weather.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"5 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":"126176529","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":"Freeway networks as Systems of Systems: An event-triggered distributed control scheme","authors":"A. Ferrara, A. NaiOleari, S. Sacone, S. Siri","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384191","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present paper is the design of a control scheme for effectively managing congestion phenomena in freeways and interurban roadways. Such systems are typically made of several road stretches connected to compose a network and, of course, the dynamic behavior of traffic in each stretch influences the state of traffic in the overall network. In this sense a freeway network can be considered and analyzed as a “System of Systems”. A distributed Model Predictive Control Scheme in which clusters of freeway cells are separately regulated is proposed in the paper. Moreover, the definition of an event-triggered scheme is included in the paper as well: in the proposed scheme the control action is not computed at each time instant as in the classical Model Predictive Control framework, but only when the system state fulfils specific conditions,.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"61 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":"124374923","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}
Elaheh Esfandiari Jahromi, L. Esmaeilani, S. Sadeghifard, A. Niknam
{"title":"Shutdown reduction methods for compressors in condensate stabilization units","authors":"Elaheh Esfandiari Jahromi, L. Esmaeilani, S. Sadeghifard, A. Niknam","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384179","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the procedure of determination, analysis and rectification of repeatable trips causes of off-gas compressors located in condensate stabilization unit of South Pars Gas Complex 2nd refinery, that have instrumentation and control system sources, are presented. Besides decreasing of production rate and increasing acid gas flaring, each trip results serious and inevitable damages on environment, human health, equipments and their accessories in consequent. Significant reduction in number of trips has been achieved by finding proper solutions for all mentioned problems and applying needed modifications that could be listed as changes in temperature transmitter settings, changing the types of them, upgrading Human Machine Interface, addition of new signals to PLC software to be shown in monitoring system and DCS for enhanced trip analysis and also correction of some control system program parts such as determination of First out alarm. In addition the above cases; security enhancement in the monitoring system is much considerable.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"56 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":"126261468","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":"Operational and real-time team decision problems in the risk-averse transportation of dangerous goods by road","authors":"C. Roncoli, R. Sacile, M. Bell","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384185","url":null,"abstract":"Dangerous goods transportation (DGT) is a relevant safety and security issue that has been treated in many papers in the last decades. Considering the significant damages that a DGT accident can cause, a DGT routing strategy is to avoid the worst case accident scenario, following a risk-averse behaviour. Game-theory is very useful in this context. Taking into account a DGT flow on a road network and the technologies for vehicle/infrastructure communication which are nowadays available, the overall context can be modelled as a system of systems, where a team of road segments concurs to find an optimal strategy to minimise the maximum risk on the territory. Two problems related to DGT are presented and preliminary formulations, at operational and at real-time level, are described. A solving method based on linear matrix inequalities is shown and first results are shown.","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":"131779453","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":"Natural language processing based Services Composition for Environmental management","authors":"Armando Ordóñez, J. Corrales, P. Falcarin","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384197","url":null,"abstract":"Automated services composition is an active research area nowadays. The application of this technology to specific domains, as well as the use of basic Telecommunications services such as call or SMS, offers new challenges. This paper presents the main components of an architecture for automated composition for Environmental Management. The proposed architecture uses Natural Language processing and AI Planners techniques domains. Although the present architecture is focused in a particular domain, most of the principles discussed here are applicable to similar scenarios.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120875246","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 systems analysis by combining SysML and coevolution","authors":"David Morgan, A. Waldock, D. Corne","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384141","url":null,"abstract":"The engineering of a complex and large scale system with hundreds of competing requirements is a time consuming and costly process. In recent years, Model Based Systems Engineering has been adopted as a means of moving from a document-centric approach to a model based approach where reusable models can be used to analyse the proposed system. The application of multi-objective optimisation algorithms to generate a set of designs that represent the trade-off between competing system requirements would be highly desirable. In this paper, the authors apply different optimisation strategies, inspired by coevolution, to efficiently generate a set of solutions by identifying and exploiting the structure within the design. The preliminary results show that using the structure inherent in a SysML design has significant benefits in terms of the number of evaluations needed to generate the solutions.","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":"129683385","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}
Ke-Wei Yang, Yan-jing Lu, Jie Mao, Zhiwei Yang, Long Li, Qingsong Zhao
{"title":"The method of analyzing mapping between capability and Performance Index based on DSM/DMM models","authors":"Ke-Wei Yang, Yan-jing Lu, Jie Mao, Zhiwei Yang, Long Li, Qingsong Zhao","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384143","url":null,"abstract":"Performance Index is the foundational and essential indices of measurement of SoS(System of Systems) capability. We propose ten sorts of mapping relationships description between kernel elements of SoS architecture based on the DSM/DMM model. The formalization of model transformation, combination and transposing operators are described as the foundation of proposition of formulation to measure the dependability of capabilities and performances of SoS. The mapping N-N Matrix for capabilities and performances provides a necessary foundation to evaluate capability of certain SoS.","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":"134031312","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}
Long Li, Yajie Dou, Bingfeng Ge, Kewei Yang, Yingwu Chen
{"title":"Executable System-of-Systems architecting based on DoDAF meta-model","authors":"Long Li, Yajie Dou, Bingfeng Ge, Kewei Yang, Yingwu Chen","doi":"10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384204","url":null,"abstract":"Methods used to gain executable architecture are all based on transforming view models to executable models, which can not take the advantage of “data-centric” approach adopted by DoDAF2.0. A novel executable architecting approach transforming DoDAF Meta-model (DM2) to executable model directly is proposed, which can overcame the limitation of traditional approaches that information consistency and data completeness may be damaged. An example to analyze Command and Control (C2) capability in Air Defense System-of-Systems (ADSoS) is provided in detail to illustrate the process to transform DM2 to Coloured Petri Net (CPN). Besides, the input and output data is also given in detail along with the process illustration.","PeriodicalId":388477,"journal":{"name":"2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"64 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":"115009157","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}