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An empirical analysis for software robustness vulnerability in terms of modularity quality 基于模块化质量的软件健壮性脆弱性实证分析

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21686

M. Abadeh, Mansooreh Mirzaie

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Modeling, simulation, and trade‐off analysis for multirobot, multioperator surveillance 多机器人、多操作员监控的建模、仿真和权衡分析

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-14 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21685

James Humann, T. Fletcher, J. Gerdes

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Design teams and industry life cycles: The interplay of innovation and complexity 设计团队和行业生命周期：创新与复杂性的相互作用

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21678

S. Padhee, Nunzio Lore, Babak Heydari

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Technical debt in systems engineering—A systematic literature review 系统工程中的技术债务——系统的文献综述

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21681

Howard Kleinwaks, Ann Batchelor, Thomas H. Bradley

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Technical debt in the engineering of complex systems 复杂系统工程中的技术债务

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-07 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21677

Yeeun Yang, D. Verma, P. Antón

{"title":"Technical debt in the engineering of complex systems","authors":"Yeeun Yang, D. Verma, P. Antón","doi":"10.1002/sys.21677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21677","url":null,"abstract":"The metaphor of technical debt (TD) is widely adopted in the software engineering field, referring to short‐term compromises in software artifacts in exchange for speed or to meet release schedules or other constraints. The implication is that TDs accumulate over time, and may eventually make rework or maintenance very expensive or even impossible. The analogy is generally applicable in the systems engineering field, particularly concerning numerous program cancellation and obsolescence challenges due to premature decisions made in early acquisition phases. This paper adapts this metaphor of TD to the systems engineering field, and proposes a TD taxonomy to support the early identification and assessment of TD items in engineering complex systems, especially in the early life cycle phases of engineering complex, distributed systems. The taxonomy identifies seven TD types: functionality, performance, interoperability, version conflicts, documentation and support, system evolution, and organic, based on systematic indicators and signs discoverable during early acquisition activities. We expect that the notion and the taxonomy of TD will offer an additional perspective for design decisions that will help mitigate challenging integration and obsolescence issues in the engineering of complex systems.","PeriodicalId":54439,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering","volume":"26 1","pages":"590 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47875125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Incremental IoT for industrial maintenance using the legacy culture 利用传统文化进行工业维护的增量物联网

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-06 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21680

Flavio Augusto R. S. Duque, Lucas F. Goulart, Adelti Assis Silva, Cecilia A. Castro Cesar

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Component‐based specification, design and verification of adaptive systems 基于组件的自适应系统的规范、设计和验证

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-06 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21675

Bence Graics, V. Molnár, I. Majzik

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Activating supply chain business models' value potentials through Systems Engineering 通过系统工程激活供应链商业模式的价值潜力

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21676

Jochen Nuerk, F. Dařena

{"title":"Activating supply chain business models' value potentials through Systems Engineering","authors":"Jochen Nuerk, F. Dařena","doi":"10.1002/sys.21676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21676","url":null,"abstract":"New business opportunities, driven by smart digitalization technology and initiatives such as Industry 4.0, significantly change business models and their innovation rate. The complexity of methodologies developed in recent decades for balancing exploration and exploitation activities of digital transformation has risen. Still, the desired integration levels across organizational levels were often not reached. Systems thinking promises to holistically consider interdisciplinary relationships and objectives of various stakeholders across supply chain ecosystems. Systems theory‐based concepts can simultaneously improve value identification and aligned transformation among supply networks’ organizational and technical domains. Hence, the study proposes synthesizing management science concepts such as strategic alignment with enterprise architecture concepts and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven business process optimization to increase innovation productivity and master the increasing rate of business dynamics at the same time. Based on a critical review, the study explores concepts for innovation, transformation, and alignment in the context of Industry 4.0. The essence has been compiled into a systems engineering‐driven framework for agile value generation on operational processes and high‐order capability levels. The approach improves visibility for orchestrating sustainable value flows and transformation activities by considering the ambidexterity of exploring and exploiting activities and the viability of supply chain systems and sub‐systems. Finally, the study demonstrates the need to harmonize these concepts into a concise methodology and taxonomy for digital supply chain engineering.","PeriodicalId":54439,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering","volume":"26 1","pages":"660 - 674"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44410579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of system representation choices on architecting insights 系统表示选择对架构洞察力的影响

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21673

Anthony Hennig, Z. Szajnfarber

{"title":"The impact of system representation choices on architecting insights","authors":"Anthony Hennig, Z. Szajnfarber","doi":"10.1002/sys.21673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21673","url":null,"abstract":"Systems engineers regularly rely on analysis of early design artifacts like system architecture representations to predict system performance, lifecycle costs, and development schedules, and to support design decision‐making. Recent recognition of challenges in this type of measurement has led to a heightened focus on developing better metrics. Less attention has been paid to the system representations upon which all subsequent analysis is performed. With this study, we demonstrate that choices about how to represent the system can explain variation in measurement, even holding metrics constant. This is important because most of these representation choices remain unarticulated in current practice. To do this, we conduct a controlled experiment where we experimentally manipulated the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) architecture representation of nine crowdsourced robotic arm designs and compared the value and relative ranks of their modularity and complexity. We found statistically significant changes in both value and rank, attributable to differences in choices in the system representation. The direction and magnitude of these changes also differed across modularity and complexity. In addition, some underlying designs seemed to be more robust to representation changes. This suggests an interaction between representation, design, and lifecycle properties. These results emphasize the importance of developing standard guidelines for how to represent system architectures and better documenting their use.","PeriodicalId":54439,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering","volume":"26 1","pages":"531 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50881530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Model‐based diagnosis with FTTell: Diagnosing early pediatric failure to thrive 基于模型的FTTell诊断：诊断早期儿童发育不良

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Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1002/sys.21674

N. Soskin, Fatma Yasin, D. Dori, R. Shaoul

{"title":"Model‐based diagnosis with FTTell: Diagnosing early pediatric failure to thrive","authors":"N. Soskin, Fatma Yasin, D. Dori, R. Shaoul","doi":"10.1002/sys.21674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21674","url":null,"abstract":"Pediatric Failure To Thrive (FTT), commonly presented in young infants, is often not diagnosed on time or missed. Lack of timely infants’ diagnosis can adversely affect their growth and development. We have developed and successfully tested FTTell—a model‐based system for diagnosing FTT during common pediatric follow up. FTTell is an executable model‐based diagnostic tool for diagnosing FTT. We use Object‐Process Methodology extended with Methodical Approach to Executable Integrative Modeling, enabling qualitative considerations and quantitative parameters of the problem to be modeled jointly, enabling FTT diagnosis. The validity of FTTell is demonstrated on data collected from 100 infants. For each child, FTTell calculates a score indicating FTT presence and severity. We compared the systems’ outcomes to a pediatric gastroenterologist expert severity assessment. Of the 100 infants, the system initially yielded 82% validity. Reassessment improved it to 87% validity. Pediatricians may miss infants with FTT, especially in borderline cases. FTTell can effectively serve as a FTT diagnosis tool, boosting pediatricians’ correct diagnosis and proper investigation. Our cloud‐based system can be continuously updated with the latest research findings. FTTell can diagnose FTT and its severity in infants with 87% accuracy. Pediatricians can use this model‐based standardized approach to improve their FTT diagnosis and provide appropriate timely intervention when needed. Model‐based diagnosis is a novel application of conceptual models, and OPM ISO 19450 is especially fit for this purpose. The model‐based diagnosis approach can be extended beyond medicine to diagnosing problems with engineered, technological, and socio‐technical systems.","PeriodicalId":54439,"journal":{"name":"Systems Engineering","volume":"26 1","pages":"548 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44703914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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