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Systems Engineering News
- Upcoming Submission Deadlines and Themes for INSIGHT
- INCOSE Event Calendar
- INCOSE eNote: News and Notes from the INCOSE Network
- BPMDS Becomes a Working Conference Attached to CAISE
- Peter Coughlan – IDEO: When Systems Thinking Met Design Thinking
- Stevens and International Space University Expand International Partnership
- INCOSE New Dues Information for 2011
Featured Societies – TBD
INCOSE Technical Operations – Systems Engineering for Very Small and Micro Entities Working Group
Systems Engineering Software Tools News
- No Magic Draws Standing Room Only Crowds during the First Day of its Inaugural User Conference
- Multiple Product Releases from No Magic
- No Magic Announces Free Online UML 2 Training
Systems Engineering Books, Reports, Articles and Papers
- Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society
- Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
- Net-Centric System of Systems Engineering with DEVS Unified Process
- Differences That Make a Difference: An Annotated Glossary of Distinctions Important in Management
Conferences and Meetings
Education and Academia
- Sabbatical in Singapore?
- Institute for Systems Research – University of Maryland
Some Systems Engineering-Relevant Websites
Standards and Guides
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 – Software and Systems Engineering – Status of Standards Development (SE-related)
- Report on Ergonomics Standardization Activities at ISO
A Definition to Close on
PPI News
PPI Events
A Quotation to Open On
Feature Article
Systems Engineering News
Upcoming Submission Deadlines and Themes for INSIGHT
INSIGHT is the newsletter of International Council on Systems Engineering. It is published four times per year (January, April, July, October). INSIGHT features status and information about INCOSE’s technical work, local chapters, and committees and boards. Additionally, related events, editorials, book reviews, trends, and how-to-do articles that are pertinent to the many aspects of a systems engineer’s job are also included, as space permits.
Upcoming submission deadlines and themes for INSIGHT
INCOSE Event Calendar
| 21st Annual International Symposium | Jun 20 – 23, 2011 |
| SETE2011 The Systems Engineering Test and Evaluation Conference | May 02 – 04, 2011 |
| CSER2011 – Ninth Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research | Apr 14 – 16, 2011 |
| Sixth International Conference on Systems Engineering sponsored by INCOSE-IL/ILTAM | Mar 08 – 09, 2011 |
| International Workshop 2011 (IW 2011) | Jan 29 – Feb 01, 2011 |
INCOSE eNote: News and Notes from the INCOSE Network
2010 Nov – Vol 7 Issue 10
- INCOSE Elections
- Fellows Nominations – Closes 1 Dec
- IS 2011
- INCOSE Foundation
- CSER-Call for Papers
- CSEP Acq News
- INSIGHT Deadlines
- Upcoming Events
- Webinars
- Survey
- Did You Know…..
- Article Headline
BPMDS Becomes a Working Conference Attached to CAISE
The international series of workshops on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) has been around since 1998. From 2011 it becomes a (two days) working conference attached to CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering).
Peter Coughlan – IDEO: When Systems Thinking Met Design Thinking
Friday, December 10, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Peter, a visiting faculty member for the Seattle University Graduate program in Organization Systems Renewal (OSR), will explore the overlap between systems thinking and design thinking as well as some of the fundamental differences between these two worlds. Peter will also be sharing recent thoughts about the application of design thinking to organizational change.
Stevens and International Space University Expand International Partnership
To respond to the demand for an in-depth technical degree offering with a global perspective, Stevens Institute of Technology and the International Space University (ISU) have joined forces to offer a Graduate Certificate in Space Systems Engineering that can lead to either a Master’s Degree in Space Systems Engineering or a Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering. The program will begin in January 2011.
INCOSE New Dues Information for 2011
Effective 1 January 2011, dues will increase in all membership categories as shown below so that we may maintain the quality of our programs, initiatives, investments, working groups, and seminars.
| Membership Category | Annual Dues (in USD) |
| Individual | 135.00 |
| Senior | 75.00 |
| Student | 35.00 |
| Corporate Advisory Board | 3,750.00 |
For individual members, discounts will be applied for advance payment of dues such that annual dues will be USD 125/year for a 3-year advance payment and USD 115/year for a 5-year advance payment. Concurrently, to provide additional capital for chapter activities, we will be increasing by 50% the amount that is forwarded to chapters from individual members’ dues.
Featured Society – TBD
More information
INCOSE Technical Operations
Systems Engineering for Very Small and Micro Entities Working Group
http://www.incose.org/practice/standards/
Charter
The Charter of the Systems Engineering for Very Small and Micro Entities (SE for VSMEs), is to assist in the application of systems engineering for product development in very small/micro enterprises or small projects.
Leadership
Chair: Gauthier Fanmuy
Co-Chair: Ken Ptack
Co-Chair: Claude Y. LaPorte
Co-Chair: Sven-Olaf Schulze
Contact Very Small and Micro Entities Working Group for additional information or to join this group.
Accomplishments/Products
• The Charter has been developed and approved. The goals of this working group are:
- To improve and make product development within VSEs more efficient by using Systems Engineering concepts
- Elaborate tailored guidance for VSMEs to apply, in the context of either a prime or subcontractor role
- Elaborate tailored guidance to apply to small projects
- To contribute to standardization in the context of systems engineering.
• The Survey has been developed in five languages (English, French, Italian, German and Spanish), has been piloted and is being conducted .(http://isosurvey.logti.etsmtl.ca/). The goals of the survey are:
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of product development practices in VSMEs and small projects in Various Domains
- Characterize the state of practice of product development in this context
- Identify areas where the practice of systems engineering can better assist product development in this context
• There have been several WG meetings and Telecons
- International symposia
- International workshops
Projects
• The Survey is currently open for all participants.
Systems Engineering Software Tools News
No Magic Draws Standing Room Only Crowds during the First Day of its Inaugural User Conference
No Magic, Inc., claiming to be the leading global provider of integrated modeling, simulation and analysis software, announced that it has drawn standing room only crowds during the first day of its No Magic World Conference 2010 that took place at the American Airlines Conference Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Multiple Product Releases from No Magic
No Magic announced the following product releases:
December 1, 2010:
- Cameo Enterprise Architecture 17.0
- Cameo Business Modeler 17.0
November 29, 2010:
- MagicDraw 17.0
- UPDM Plugin 17.0
- Cameo Business Modeler Plugin 17.0
- SysML Plugin 17.0
- Cameo DataHub 4.1 SP1
No Magic Announces Free Online UML 2 Training
No Magic, Inc., claiming to be the leading global provider of integrated modeling, simulation, & analysis solutions and services, announced that it is offering its UML 2 online training course “Free-of-Charge”. The No Magic online UML 2 course is designed to teach those interested in Unified Modeling Language (UML®) the basic tenets of UML 2.
Systems Engineering Books, Reports, Articles and Papers
Systems Thinking for an Economically Literate Society
Michael F. Reber
“IN THE US A DISMAL TRUTH EXISTS about the citizenry’s lack of understanding of economic fundamentals.”
“This then leads one to ask, “What can be done to help people become literate in economics?” Perhaps the answer lies in the area of systems thinking, which is a “school of thought that focuses on recognizing the interconnections between the parts of a system and synthesizing them into a unified view of the whole” (Anderson and Johnson 1997, 130)”
“In this paper I first give a cursory review of General Systems Theory (GST) as developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and extended by others in the systems thinking field to illustrate the confluences of thought among Mises and systems scientists. From this I argue the need for systems thinking and design in primary, secondary, and tertiary curricula and make reference to non-prescriptive teaching and learning applications for the fostering of economic literacy.”
Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
John D. Sterman (Author)
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (December 1, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0071179895, ISBN-13: 978-0071179898
Product Description:
Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.
Net-Centric System of Systems Engineering with DEVS Unified Process
Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies, Tempe, Arizona, USA; Jose Luis Risco-Martin
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Date: November 15, 2011
ISBN: 9781439827062 , ISBN 10: 1439827060
Summary:
Addressing the new challenges that engineers face, this book presents fundamental concepts to help tackle the integration of modeling and simulation with command, and control systems of systems through the use of concepts and standards for interoperability and testing based on the Discrete Event Systems Specification Unified Process. The text presents state-of-the-art modeling and simulation methodologies in system-of-systems engineering, focusing on the development of modeling and simulation based net-centric systems of systems. The author aims to provide a foundation for net-centric systems software engineering. This seminal text is based on the Department of Defense Architecture Framework.
Differences That Make a Difference: An Annotated Glossary of Distinctions Important in Management
by Russell L. Ackoff
Publisher: triarchy press
Publication Date: 9 December 2010
Print ISBN: 978-1-908009-01-2
Product Description:
Thinkers very great and very small – from Voltaire to (most recently) Conservapedia – have underlined the importance of first defining your terms – establishing the exact dimensions of the beast before attempting to argue about it, slay it or revere it.
Towards the end of his life, Russ Ackoff determined to explain how some of the apparently insignificant misinterpretations of language and meaning he observed during his long years of research can, in practice, have far-reaching consequences – especially for our organizational health. His aim was to dissolve (not solve or resolve) some of the many disputes in professional and private life that revolve around such misunderstandings.
In Differences that Make a Difference (the last manuscript that he was to complete before his death) he does exactly that. This book brings together 57 definitions of important terms and concepts, many of which underpin Ackoff’s contribution to organizational learning.
Conferences and Meetings
ICISE 2010: International Conference on Intelligent Systems Engineering
December 18, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
isee systems – Introduction to Dynamic Modeling with STELLA and iThink 
January 19-21, 2011, The Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA
ICECSE 2011 “International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering”
January 25-27, 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
INCOSE International Workshop 2011 (IW 2011)
January 29 – February 01, 2011, Hyatt Regency Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2011 Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS’11) 
February 8-10, 2011, De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton
Second International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences (IESS 1.1)
February 16-17-18, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
The Sixth International Conference on Systems Engineering in Israel
March 8-9 2011, Herzlia, Israel
2011 International Conference on Systems Engineering and Modeling (ICSEM 2011)
11 to 13 March 2011, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Second ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
(ICPE 2011)
March 14-16, 2011 Karlsruhe, Germany
Design, Automation & Test in Europe
March 14-18, 2011, Grenoble, France
26th Symposium On Applied Computing
March 21 – 25, 2011, Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan
Requirements Engineering Track – 4th Edition
Part of the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 21 – 25, 2011, Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan
ICST Workshop on Requirements and Validation, Verification & Testing (ReVVerT 2011)
Co-located with the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2011)
March 21-25, 2011 (one day), Berlin, Germany
1st Int’l Workshop on Variability-intensive Systems Testing, Validation & Verification 
Co-located with ICST 2011
March 21, 2011, Berlin, Germany
7th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST 2011)
Co-located with the 4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2011)
March 21, 2011 – Berlin, Germany
IWEI 2011 – The International Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability
March 22-24, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
MoBE-RTES 2011 – 2nd IEEE Workshop on Model-based Engineering for Real-Time Embedded Systems
March 28th, 2011, Newport Beach, California
REFSQ 2011 – 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
March 28-30, 2011, Essen, Germany
MBT 2011 – Seventh Workshop on Model-Based Testing
April 2-3, 2011, Saarbrϋken, Germany
Satellite workshop of ETAPS 2011
GT-VMT 2011 – International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques
April 2-3, 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany
IEEE International Systems Conference
April 4-7, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (DEVS/TMS’11)
April 4-9 2011, Boston, MA, USA
1st International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering
Held under the aegis of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation, part of the SCS SpringSim 2011 conference.
April 4-9, 2011, Boston, MA (USA)
International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
6-8th April, 2011, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WORIE ’11)
within the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
6th-10th April, 2011, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
CSER 2011 – Conference on Systems Engineering Research
April 14-16 2011, Redondo Beach Crown Plaza, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
17th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies 
April 27th – 29th, 2011, Kaunas, Lithuania
Risk-Based Approaches to Major Decisions (Risk ’11)
May 13 – 14, 2011, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2011) 
(co-located with ICSE 2011)
May 21-22, 2011, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Sixth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2011) 
(co-located with 33rd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011))
May 21-28, 2011, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
RSP 2011 – IEEE International Symposium on Rapid system Prototyping 
May 24 – 27, 2011, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
SPICE 2011 – The 11th International SPICE Conference Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination
30 May – 1 June 2011, Dublin, Ireland
Seventh European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
6-9th of June, 2011, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
10th TTCN‑3 User Conference
June 7-9, 2011, Bled, Slovenia
4th Symposium on Resilience Engineering
June 8-10, 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France
BPMDS’11 Working Conference 
in conjunction with CAISE 2011
June 20-21 in London, United Kingdom
FM 2011: 17th International Symposium on Formal Methods
June 20 – 24, 2011, Lero, Limerick, Ireland
The 32nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (PETRI NETS 2011)
11th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2011)
June 20-24, 2011 Kanazawa Cultural Hall, Kanazawa, Japan
INES 2011 – 15th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems 2011
June 23-25, 2011, Poprad, High Tatras, Slovakia
SoSE 2011 – 2011 6th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)
Jun 27 – 30, 2011, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A
ICMT2011 – International Conference on Model Transformation
Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Co-located with TOOLS Europe 2011
27 June – 01 July 2011 – Zurich, Switzerland
15th International Conference on System Design Languages 
July 5th – 7th, 2011, Toulouse, France
International System Dynamics Conference 
July 24 – 28, 2011, Washington, DC, USA
46th Annual International Logistics Conference and Exhibition (SOLE 2011) 
August 2011
19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
August 29 – September 2, 2011, Trento, Italy
International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management for Sustainable Global Development
September 21-23, 2011, Spier Hotel and Conference Centre, Western Cape, South Africa
Second Annual IIBA Conference
October 2011, More details TBA
SSEE 2011 – Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering 2011 International Conference 
October 24-26, 2011, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Education and Academia
Sabbatical in Singapore?
The National University of Singapore is looking for some distinguished help in 2011. Would you like to spend a sabbatical in Singapore doing some teaching and developing case studies in systems engineering? The time would be about 3 – 4 months (a semester).
Institute for Systems Research – University of Maryland
The Institute for Systems Research (ISR) is a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. It is home to cross disciplinary research and education programs in systems engineering and sciences, and is committed to developing basic solution methodologies and tools for systems problems in a variety of application domains. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.
Some Systems Engineering-Relevant Websites
http://mastersinprojectmanagement.com
This site by Andrea McDougal aims to provide a list of every school in the United States that offers a master’s degree in project management. All the schools are listed on the home page and lead directly to each program; additionally they are sorted by state.
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html
This site lists all the International Standards that, in accordance with ISO/IEC JTC 1 and the ISO and IEC Councils, are publicly available!.
Standards and Guides
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 – Software and Systems Engineering – Status of Standards Development (SE-related)
 Standard and/or project |
 Stage |
 ICS |
|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC FDIS 15026-2
Systems and software engineering — Systems and software assurance — Part 2: Assurance case |
50.20 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 15026-3
Information technology — System and software integrity levels |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FCD 15289
Systems and software engineering — Content of systems and software life cycle process information products (Documentation) |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC DIS TR 15476-5
Information technology — CDIF semantic metamodel — Part 5: Data flow models |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FDIS 15909-2.2
Systems and software engineering — High-level Petri nets — Part 2: Transfer format |
50.20 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC DTR 16337
Systems Engineering — Systems Engineering Handbook |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC DIS 19506
Information technology — Architecture-Driven Modernization — Knowledge Discovery Meta-model (KDM), v1.1 |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC DTR 24748-2
Systems and software engineering — Life cycle management — Part 2: Guide for the application of ISO/IEC 15288 (Systems life cycle processes) |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC NP 24748-4
Systems engineering — Application and management of the systems engineering process |
10.99 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765
Systems and software engineering — Vocabulary |
60.00 | 01.040.35 |
| ISO/IEC FDIS 25010
Systems and software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) — System and software quality models |
50.20 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FDIS 25040
Systems and software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) — Evaluation process |
50.20 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 25063
Systems and software engineering – System and software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) – Common industry Format for Usability: Context of use description |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 25064
System and software product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) – Common industry Format for Usability: User needs report |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 26511
Software and systems engineering — User documentation requirements for managers |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FDIS 26512
Systems and software engineering — Requirements for acquirers and suppliers of user documentation |
50.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 26515
Software and systems engineering – IT Performance Benchmarking Framework |
30.20 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 26550
Software and Systems Engineering – Reference model for software and systems product lines |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 26551
Software and Systems Engineering – Tools and methods of requirements engineering and management for product lines |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC CD 26555
Software and Systems Engineering – Tools and methods of technical management for product lines |
30.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FCD 29148
Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Requirements engineering |
40.60 | 35.080 |
| ISO/IEC FCD 42010
Systems and software engineering — Architecture description |
40.60 | 35.080 |
Legend:
- CD: Committee Draft
- FCD: Final Committee Draft
- DIS: Draft international Standard
- FDIS: Final Draft International Standard
- NP: New Work Item Proposal
- DTR: Draft Technical Report
- TR: Technical Report
- ICS: International Classification for Standards reference
- Stage: Standards Development Process Stage
Report on Ergonomics Standardization Activities at ISO
by Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, Chair, U.S. TAG to ISO TC 159
This article summarizes discussions and activities at the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 159 (ISO TC 159) Plenary meeting and recent working group meetings.
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