WHAT’S INSIDE:
A Quotation to Open On
Systems Engineering News
- Upcoming Submission Deadlines and Themes for INSIGHT
- New! BABOK® Guide Agile Extension and Learning Guide
- 3SL/Cradle: August 2010 Newsletter
- OMG Announces Availability of First Exam Level in Program to Certify Practitioners of Model-Based Systems Engineering Using SysML
- Systems Engineering Recognizes LAI Researchers
Featured Societies – TBD
INCOSE Technical Operations – Transportation Working Group
Systems Engineering Software Tools News
- Freeware Tool – DESIRe®
- Introducing Cameo Inter-Op
- Multiple Product Releases from No Magic
- Rommana 10.2 is Now Available for Free Download
Systems Engineering Books, Reports, Articles and Papers
- New Book Series on Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering announced by College Publications
- A Journey Through the Systems Landscape
- The Next Great Challenges in Systems Thinking: A Defence Perspective
- Human Resources: Systems thinking – Help employees to see the big picture
- NASA Systems Engineering Education Initiative: Curriculum Development for Systems Engineering Education
Conferences and Meetings
Education and Academia
- First Penn State students graduate from online engineering program
- George Mason University: Introduction to Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR) Online Short Courses and Certificate Program
- New @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) – System Optimization Course
Some Systems Engineering-Relevant Websites
Standards and Guides
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7 Interim Meeting
A Definition to Close on
PPI News
PPI Events
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
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Issue |
Submission Date for General Articles |
Theme |
Theme Editors |
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4th Qtr 2010 |
15-Oct-10 |
Systems Development from Deep Sea to Deep Space: |
Mike O’Driscoll, Sam Seymour |
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1st Qtr 2011 |
15-Feb-11 |
Knowledge Management for Systems Engineering |
Regina Griego, Art Pyster, Kevin Forsberg |
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2nd Qtr 2011 |
15-May-11 |
Systems of Systems and Self-Organizing Security* |
Rick Dove, Ken Kepchar, Jennifer Bayuk |
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3rd Qtr 2011 |
17 Jul 2011** |
2011 International Symposium Coverage: Denver, Co, USA |
TBD |
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4th Qtr 2011 |
15-Oct-11 |
AFIS 2010 |
Hervé Panetto |
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1st Qtr 2012 |
15-Feb-12 |
INCOSE Authors* |
Cecilia Haskins |
New! BABOK® Guide Agile Extension and Learning Guide
The IIBA® Professional Development team announced that two new resources are available for IIBA members:
- Introduction to the Agile Extension
- BABOK® Learning Guide
3SL/Cradle: August 2010 Newsletter
In this issue:
- 3SL Newsletters
- Newsletter Contents
- 3SL Website
- Need Help?
- Cradle-6.3 Release
- Supported Platforms
- Cradle Gateway
- Improved PDF and Visio Integration
- Integration with OpenOffice
- New Discussion Mechanism
- Item Specific Alerts
- Baseline Comparison Report
- Wider Database Fields
- Create Projects Remotely
- Mixed Office Installations
- Old Versions of Cradle
OMG Announces Availability of First Exam Level in Program to Certify Practitioners of Model-Based Systems Engineering Using SysML
OMG™ announced that “Model User,” the first exam in the OMG Certified Systems Modeling Professional™ (OCSMP™) program is now available. The program’s sponsors IBM®, Lockheed Martin, Sparx Systems and No Magic, Inc., and partnership with UML Technology Institute Co., Ltd. (UTI), have made construction and validation of the exams possible. For more information, please visit http://www.omg.org/ocsmp.
Systems Engineering Recognizes LAI Researchers
Systems Engineering Journal recognized Donna Rhodes, Ricardo Valerdi, and Garry Roeder with its 2010 outstanding paper award for their article, “Systems Engineering Leading Indicators of Assessing Program and Technical Effectiveness.” The paper was judged to have made an outstanding contribution to systems engineering theory, practices, and perspectives.
Featured Society – TBD
TBD
More information
INCOSE Technical Operations
Transportation Working Group
http://www.incose.org/practice/techactivities/wg/transport/
Charter
Promote the development and tailored application of Systems Engineering (SE) best practices to ground systems, including public and private interests and seamless inter-modal interfaces with emphasis on roadways, rail, bus and metro.
INCOSE Transportation Working Group
Within the field of ground transportation, we support INCOSE’s mission to advance the art and practice of Systems Engineering. We are an international collaboration and our members represent Owners, Consultants, Suppliers, and Academics.
Major challenges face ground transportation projects, including:
- New technology applications and their integration with legacy systems
- Requirements management and change management in dynamic environments over multi-year project development cycles
- Definition of systems verification and validation processes that ensure the Owner gets a system that performs as expected over its lifecycle
Failure to address these challenges properly has resulted in projects that did not deliver their required benefits and exceeded their budgets and schedules. We all have a stake in improving project delivery and we believe that the application of SE will enable the success of the complex projects that will provide the means to move more people and goods securely and efficiently.
Invitation
Join the Transportation Working Group
We invite you to join us and become part of the solution. We are working towards adapting SE best practices to benefit ground transportation projects. We convene regularly via webcasts and conference calls and meet at INCOSE International Symposiums and Workshops. We have activities underway to address the ground transportation aspects of SE issues such as:
- Lack of SE Resources / SE Knowledge in the ground transportation sector
- Need for common SE Terminology and Process & required Cultural Shift/Organizational change
- Articulating the SE Value Proposition, Metrics & Benchmarking for ground transportation
- In-Service challenges / Incremental Migration
- Scaling the application of SE for ground transportation
- External Communication & Outreach across ground transporation sector
We also collaborate with INCOSE Chapter groups active in the field such as the UK Rail Interest Group
There is no charge to INCOSE members to join the Working Group. If you wish to join or simply have questions, please contact the Transportation WG.
What We Produce!
The following are papers and presentations that the Working Group has recently developed. Feel free to use these as reference material, or provide your input to the working group directly.
- Building a Systems Engineering Capability (PowerPoint presentation) (Size: 3.79Mb)
- Building an SE Capability Flyer (Size: 417K)
- The Value Proposition for Systems Engineering in Railways and Transit for Engineering Practitioners (long version) (Size: 111K)
- The Value Proposition for Systems Engineering in Railways and Transit for Senior Management (short version) (Size: 9.8K)
Upcoming Events:
We are looking forward to these exciting events in 2010: the International Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, USA, scheduled for July 11-15, 2010 at the O’Hare Hyatt Regency. Full program details and registration information for this event can be found at http://www.incose.org/symp2010 (includes details on SE Tutorials: basic and advanced levels offered throughout the Symposium.)
The Transportation Working Group has organized a Transportation related program of events. Highlights include industry roundtable discussions, panel and paper presentations, and technical tours. As further details and anticipated attendance of industry leads become available, they will be posted here. Please check back periodically for updates.
A publicity flier outlining Preliminary Transportation Program Highlights is attached for use; please download and distribute to industry colleagues who should attend.
- IS 2010 Transporation Flyer (PDF) (Size: 180 Kb)
- IS 2010 Transportation Program (Word) (Size: 94 KB)
Benefits of attending this event includes the ability to:
- Collaborate with industry colleagues practicing SE
- Exchange emerging best practices and experiences
- Interact with Industry Executives
- Share tailoring approaches to applying SE within rail/transit (organization, project level)
- Expand network of experienced SE practitioners working across many domains
Previous Events:
The 19th Annual INCOSE International Symposium (IS09) was held in Singapore during July 2009. The Transportation Working Group presented the following papers:
- Building a Systems Engineering Framework for London Overground using Experiences from the East London Line Project (ELLP) (Size: 368k)
- Automated Metro-Ensuring Safety and Reliability with Minimum Human Intervention (Size: 126k)
The 18th Annual INCOSE International Symposium (IS08) occurred in Utrecht, Netherlands in June of 2008. The following is a presentation made by the Transportation Working titledTailoring Systems Engineering to Transit – Optimizing In-Service Systems. (Size: 3.27Mb) The following Rail Transit Events Flyer highlights the various sessions that were held at IS08. (Size: 934k)
Leadership
Co-Chair: Duncan Kemp, Department for Transport (UK)
Co-Chair: Anne O’Neil, MTA New York City Transit (USA)
Contact Transportation Working Group (TransportationWG) for additional information or to join this group.
Systems Engineering Software Tools News
Freeware Tool – DESIRe®
HOOD Group: Freeware Tool – DESIRe® is claimed to support authors writing or checking requirements in the quality assurance of requirements written in the natural language. It is a software tool that in the chosen requirement, depending on the words used (e.g. ambiguous words and verbs etc.), displays predefined questions in a popup window. These are questions regarding possible weaknesses in the requirement. By mentally answering these questions, the idea is for the requirements author to then rework the wording of the requirement as necessary. This ensures that basic rules for requirements, such as completeness, consistency, understandability etc., are followed and the quality of the requirement is improved.
DESIRe® is available for Microsoft® Office Word and IBM® Rational® DOORS®.
If you are interested in, just download it. http://DESIRe.HOOD-Group.com
Introducing Cameo Inter-Op
No Magic announced the release of Cameo™ Inter-Op 1.0.
Cameo™ Inter-Op is an integral part of No Magic’s Cameo™ Suite, claimed to provide true interoperability to the industry by enabling connectivity between different vendors of modeling, architecture, and requirements tools. This effort was initiated by the earlier releases of No Magic’s MagicRQ and Cameo DataHub, along with the opening up of the core XMI format of MagicDraw’s meta data and diagram information.
Multiple Product Releases from No Magic
No Magic announced the following product releases –
August 23, 2010: MagicDraw version 16.9, Cameo Business Modeler, SysML Plugin, and UPDM Plugin.
August 30, 2010: Cameo Team Server 4.1, Cameo Requirements+ 4.1 Release, Cameo DataHub 4.1 Beta, Cameo Workbench 1.0.
Rommana 10.2 is Now Available for Free Download
Rommana 10.2 brings over 45 new features in different Rommana Components.
Systems Engineering Books, Reports, Articles and Papers
New Book Series on Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering announced by College Publications
Co-Edited By:
Harold “Bud” Lawson, Stevens Academic Fellow
Jon Wade, Stevens Distinguished Research Professor
ABOUT THE SERIES
Systems Thinking has grown during the 20th century into highly useful discipline independent theories and practices. Systems Thinking focuses upon understanding the holistic properties of complex systems and, in particular, the dynamic relationships that arise in the interactions of multiple systems in operation.
Systems Engineering has gained momentum during the latter part of the 20th century and has led to engineering related practices and standards that can be used in the life cycle management of complex systems. Systems Engineering focuses upon transforming the need for a system into a set of capabilities, requirements, functions or objects, that guides the production of products and services that meet the need in an effective manner.
The combination of Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering is of particular interest in establishing the capability to “think” and “act” in terms of systems.
This series publishes books and proceedings that are related to Systems Thinking or Systems Engineering or both subjects.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
College Publications is run by academics for academics to serve the academic community. It aims to
- Provide the academic community with a non-profit making, highly prestigious publishing outlet that will break the monopoly that commercial publishers have.
- Publish books that can be purchased at reasonable prices, making information accessible to all.
- Show that academics no longer need to be controlled by commercial interests!
CONTACTS
Do you have a book in mind or under development that would be appropriate for this Series? If so, please contact one of the Co-Editors or College Publications as noted below.
Harold “Bud” Lawson – bud@lawson.se
Jon Wade – jon.wade@stevens.edu
Jane Spurr – jane.spurr@kcl.ac.uk
College Publications: http://www.collegepublications.co.uk
A Journey Through the Systems Landscape
Harold “Bud” Lawson
Lawson Konsult AB and Stevens Academic Fellow
College Publications (8 Jun 2010)
ISBN-10: 1848900104
ISBN-13: 978-1848900103
About the book:
Systems are everywhere and affect us daily in our private and professional lives. We all use the word “system” to describe something that is essential but often abstract, complex and even mysterious. However, learning to utilize system concepts as first class objects as well as methodologies for systems thinking and systems engineering provides a basis for removing the mystery and moving towards mastery even for complex systems.
This journey through the Systems Landscape has been developed to promote learning to “think” and “act” in terms of systems. A unique aspect is the introduction of concrete system semantics provided as a “system survival kit” and based upon a limited number of concepts and principles as well as a mental model called the system-coupling diagram. This discipline independent presentation assists individuals and is essential for building a learning organization that can utilize a systems approach to achieving its enterprise goals.
The eight chapters are presented as stops along a journey that successively build system knowledge. Each chapter terminates with a Knowledge Verification section that provides questions and exercises for individuals and groups. Case studies reflecting the utilization of the system related concepts, principles and methodologies are provided as chapter interludes.
The Next Great Challenges in Systems Thinking: A Defence Perspective
David Oxenham
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK Ministry of Defence, Salisbury, Wilts, UK
Abstract
Defence research and development is superbly rich in the challenges of designing highly complex technologically based systems. These present very difficult systems thinking problems that will have to be solved if a systems approach is to be successfully applied to creating and sustaining the military capabilities and forces that the UK will need for the twenty-first century. Beginning with the nature of capability and introducing the concepts of capability engineering and through-life capability management, this paper explores the nature of these challenges from the perspectives of history and the author’s experiences in working with colleagues in the UK and Allied defence acquisition communities. In his analysis, he identifies four ‘next great systems thinking challenges’: language, complexity, longevity and agility, overcoming each of which will require innovation in research and the development of new systems engineering and systems thinking practices. Looking further ahead, the author lists some of the emerging problems for defence, where taking a systems thinking approach could be particularly critical for success: demography, skills, education and human factors; security and the complexity of joined-up government; and the pace of technology advance. These are candidates for future next great challenges. Concluding, he notes that systems thinkers in defence are not alone. Complex capability engineering problems can also be found in energy, air and rail transport, complex IT networks, major civil engineering projects, and medicine and health care. Defence can learn a lot from systems thinkers in the civil world, and the civil world can learn a lot from defence.
Human Resources: Systems thinking – Help employees to see the big picture
By Daniel Schroeder, for BizTimes, Published June 25, 2010
Question:
“As the HR director at my company, I’m spending more time mediating conflicts between work areas. No one seems to see the big picture: that we are here to help one another so the company can meet the customers’ needs. There’s a lot of competition, blaming and accusing. What can I do to help people see we’re all in this together?”
Answer:
This is a very common concern. We work with clients to address these kinds of concerns every day. Organizations of all kinds and types are filled with barriers, turfs, territories, and silos. Employees who operate inside these boxes tend to adopt a defended and guarded perspective along the lines of, “We’ve got our act together … the problem is over there, with those people … they are the ones messing things up.” This kind of parochial thinking is, of course, misguided. The adage that, “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is applicable here. If Department A is going great-guns but Department B is spinning its wheels, then Department B’s futility will dictate how the organization’s processes ultimately perform.
So what can you do to encourage your employees to start to sing from the same song sheet? Unleash the power of systems thinking. Systems thinking is a term that was most popularly explored by Peter Senge in his book, “The Fifth Discipline.” According to Senge, systems thinking has to do with, “Seeing interrelationships rather than things, seeing patterns of change rather than ‘static snapshots’ . . . It is a discipline for seeing the ‘structures’ that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from low leverage change.”
NASA Systems Engineering Education Initiative: Curriculum Development for Systems Engineering Education
This program is a part of a larger initiative endorsed by NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) to address systems engineering at the university level. Significant involvement of university faculty in all aspects of NASA’s Systems Engineering Education Initiative gives the greatest opportunity for long-term curricular change. ESMD in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin developed an undergraduate systems engineering curriculum. The intent of this development effort was to use UT-Austin’s Department of Aerospace Engineering as a test bed for the systems engineering materials, particularly as a prerequisite to the required senior design class. Following the pilot instruction of the space systems engineering course at UT-Austin, the curriculum was made available to interested universities.
Conferences and Meetings
Modeling Business Information Systems (MoBIS 2010)
September 15-17, 2010, Dresden, Germany
7th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2010
September 15 – 18, 2010, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA at the College of William & Mary, Computer Science Department,
First International Workshop on Evolution Support for Model-Based Development and Testing (EMDT2010)
Co-located with the International Scientific Colloquium (IWK2010)
September 16, 2010, Ilmenau, Germany
Model Driven Approaches in System Development (MDASD 2010) 
ADBIS 2010 Workshop
September 20, 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
15th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2010)
September 20-21, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium
3rd International PERADA-ASSYST Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems
Sept. 20-27 2010, Europa Conference Center, Budapest, Hungary
12th International Workshop on Verification of Infinite-State Systems (INFINITY 2010)
September 21, 2010, Singapore
8th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2010)
21-24 September 2010, Singapore
EPEW 2010: 7th European Performance Engineering Workshop
University Residential Center of Bertinoro, Italy
23-24 September 2010
Challenges of Systems Engineering – International Workshop (RuSEC2010)
September 23-24, 2010, Moscow, Russia
ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC’10)
September 26-29, 2010, São Carlos – São Paulo – Brazil
1st Brazilian Workshop on Model-Driven Development
September 27, 2010, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2010)
September 27-October 1, 2010, Budapest, Hungary
Workshop on Socio-Economics Inspiring Self-Managed Systems and Concepts (SEISMYC 2010)
Located at SASO 2010
September 27th, 2010, Budapest, Hungary
Doctoral Symposium @ RE2010
September 27, 2010, Sydney, Australia
Third International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK’10)
September 27, 2010, Sydney, Australia
C-MBSE 2010 – 3rd International Conference on Model-Based Systems Engineering 
September 27-28, 2010. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
September 27-October 1, 2010, San Francisco
The 18th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2010)
Sep 27, 2010 – Oct 1, 2010, Sydney, Australia
Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2010)
September 27-October 1, 2010, Budapest, Hungary
Model-based Testing and Test Automation – From Research into Practice (MoTes2010)
September 27 – October 2, Leipzig, Germany
Fifth International Conference on Graph Transformation
27 September – 2 October, 2010. University Of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
REET’10 Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training
In conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
September 28, 2010, Sydney, Australia
RELAW’10 Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law
In conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
September 28, 2010, Sydney, Australia
REV’10 Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization
In conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
September 28, 2010 – Sydney, Australia
1st Workshop on The Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE’10)
To be held in conjunction with the RE 2010 Joint Conference
September 28, 2010, Sydney, Australia
4th International Workshop on Graph Based Tools
A satellite event of ICGT’10
September 28th 2010, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Second Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference & Exhibition
September 28-29, 2010, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, San Diego, CA
INCOSE is a supporting organization of this conference. Our members will receive a $100 discount on registrations. Click on this link for additional information:
PDMC 2010 – 9th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Methods in Verification
Joint with 2nd International Workshop on High Performance Computational Systems Biology (HiBi 2010)
September 30 – October 1, 2010, Twente, The Netherlands
Co-locating with
5th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2010) , 29 September – 1 October, 2010
17th Annual workshop on Software Model Checking (SPIN 2010), 27 September – 29 September, 2010
First Workshop on Model Driven Interoperability (MDI’2010)
In Conjunction with Models 2010
October 3-5, 2010, Oslo, Norway
3rd International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems
In Conjunction with Models 2010
October 3-5, 2010, Oslo, Norway
5th International Workshop models@run.time
In Conjunction with Models 2010
October 3-8, 2010, Oslo, Norway
Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling
In Conjunction with Models 2010
October 3-8, 2010, Oslo, Norway
4th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling – MPM’10
In Conjunction with Models 2010
October 3-8, 2010, Oslo, Norway
ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
October 3-8, 2010, Oslo, Norway
Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering (APCOSE 2010)
4 – 6 October, 2010. Keelung, Taiwan.
2010 isee User Conference
October 4-6, 2010, The Westin Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
IFM 2010: Integrated Formal Methods 8th International Conference
October 11 – 14, 2010, Nancy, France
ISDEA2010 – 2010 International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Engineering Application 
October 13-14, 2010, Changsha / China
INCOSE LA Mini-Conference 2010 – “Increasing the Value of Systems Engineering’s Portfolio to Our Stakeholders”
October 16, 2010, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA
Sixth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2010)
October 16 – 20, Reykjavik Iceland
World Engineering Congress and Exhibition: ENGINEERING 2010 – ARGENTINA:
“Technology, Innovation and Production for Sustainable Development”
October 17 – 20 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina
International Conference on Lean Enterprise and Systems (LESS 2010)
October 17 – 20, 2010, Helsinki, Finland
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Conference
October 17-21, 2010, Alexandria, VA, USA
Business Analysis Forum
October 17-22, Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, Alexandria, VA, USA
SPLASH 2010 Workshop on Flexible Modeling Tools
October 18, 2010, Reno Nevada, USA
Dynamic Languages Symposium 2010
Co-located with SPLASH 2010
In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN (PENDING)
October 18, 2010, Reno, Nevada, USA
SoS 2010 – Special Session on System of Systems (SoS’10) 
At International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT-2010)
Leaders for a New Climate: Systems Thinking and the C-ROADS Simulation 
Oct 19-21, 2010, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
SEAri Research Summit 2010
October 19, 2010, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
FMCAD 2010 – Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design
October 20 – 23, 2010, Lugano, Switzerland
MIT Systems Thinking Conference
October 21-22, 2010, Broad Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
NDIA 13th Annual Systems Engineering Conference
October 25-28, 2010, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, San Diego, CA, USA
Requirements Days 2010
October 26 – 28, 2010, Mϋnchen, Germany
2010 Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC2010)
October 26-28, 2010, Huntsville Marriott, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
5th International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N’2010)
October 27-28, 2010, Hersonissou, Crete, Greece
Complex Systems Design & Management 2010
October 27-29, 2010, Paris, France
12th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2010)
Co-Located with the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
November 1-4, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA
29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
1-4 November 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seventh International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2010)
(Held in conjunction with ER 2010)
November 1-4, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada
25th International Forum on COCOMO and Systems/Software Cost Modeling
November 2-5, 2010, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010 IITA International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE 2010)
Nov 7, 2010 – Nov 8, 2010. Taipei, Taiwan
No Magic World Conference
November 7-10th, 2010, American Airlines Conference Center, Fort Worth, TX
INCOSE UK Annual Systems Engineering Conference 2010 (ASEC10)
November 8-10, 2010, Heythrop Park Hotel, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK
SEPG Latin America 2010
November 10-12, 2010, Medellín, Colombia
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Fall Symposium: Complex Adaptive Systems: Resilience, Robustness, and Evolvability
November 11 – 13, 2010, Arlington, VA
5th Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR2010) workshop
November 12, 2010 as part of the Enterprise Engineering Week at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands from the 9th of November to the 12th of November
CMMI 10th Annual Technology Conference and User Group
November 15-18, 2010
Hyatt Regency Tech Center – Denver, Colorado, USA
Third IEEE International workshop UML and Formal Methods
Held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010
November 16th, 2010, Shanghai, China
5th International Forum on Engineering Education (IFEE2010) & European SDPROMO II Conference
November 23 – 25, 2010, Sharjah-Dubai, UAE, United Arab Emirates
1st International Chemical and Environmental Engineering Conference 2010
November 26 – 28, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
22nd International Conference Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications (ICSSEA 2010)
December 7-9, 2010, Paris, France
National Institute of Technology – National Systems Conference 2010
December 10-12, 2010, National Institute Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
ICISE 2010: International Conference on Intelligent Systems Engineering
December 18, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
ICECSE 2011 “International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering”
January 25-27, 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Second International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences (IESS 1.1)
February 16-17-18, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
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
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 (MoBE-RTES 2011) 
Mar 28, 2011
REFSQ 2011 – 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality 
March 28-30, 2011, Essen, Germany
IEEE International Systems Conference
April 4-7, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Risk-Based Approaches to Major Decisions (Risk ’11)
May 13 – 14, 2011, Falmouth, Cornwall, 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
19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 
August 29 – September 2, 2010, Trento, Italy
Education and Academia
First Penn State students graduate from online engineering program
University Park, Pa. – Neil Barnas has just completed a rigorous master’s degree program at Penn State, but instead of joining fellow graduates for commencement ceremonies Aug. 14, at University Park campus, the Air Force captain will be preparing for his new assignment at the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, a Department of Defense unit involved with aircraft weapon systems for the U.S military and its allies. Barnas is one of 27 working professionals from around the nation who are the first graduates of the new Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering program offered by Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies and delivered online through the University’s World Campus.
George Mason University: Introduction to Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR) Online Short Courses and Certificate Program
The series of twelve non-credit online synchronous short courses and the related certificate program, Introduction to Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), offers an opportunity for engineering professionals to increase their technical knowledge of systems engineering and operations research and to enhance their ability to engineer, optimize, plan, integrate, and manage the design of complex systems.
The program is offered by the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department. All courses are taught by The Volgenau School of Information Technology & Engineering faculty and industry experts. All short course instructors are at the forefront of their field, and have extensive experience in applying their knowledge to contemporary real-world application. The knowledge you gain in the courses is designed to be applicable immediately to your job and your career.
New @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) – System Optimization Course
“System Optimization is a lot more than linear and non-linear programming. Student projects teach you it’s as much art as it is science.”
Reflecting WPI’s long tradition of theory and practice, this new System Optimization course will provide students not only with fundamentals and techniques but will make sure students understand how to apply system optimization to real world engineering and business problems. This course is not structured around lectures and exams but around student projects.
For example, one project involves optimizing the roster of a New England sports team, given constraints on roster size, salaries, and player availability. Another project involves optimizing the design of a military vehicle, given constraints on size, cost, and range.
Some Systems Engineering-Relevant Websites
http://profs.etsmtl.ca/claporte/English/VSE/VSE.html
Public Site of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7[1] Working Group 24 ISO/IEC 29110 – Life Cycle Profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs)
http://www.nasa.gov/news/reports/NASA_SE_Behavior_Study.html
This study was conducted to identify the characteristics or behaviors frequently observed in highly regarded SEs at NASA.
Standards and Guides
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7 Interim Meeting
Registration is now open for the interim meeting at https://www.fbcinc.com/nist_ISOSC7/atreg1.aspx
It is essential that all participants register at least four weeks before the meeting date: The deadline for registration is Monday, October 4, 2010. Advance registration is required for all participants, both US and non-US. Unregistered persons arriving at NIST cannot be admitted.
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Systems Engineering Public 5-Day Courses (2010)
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Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing Public Courses (2010)
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Software Engineering Public 5-Day Courses (2010)
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OCD/CONOPS Public Courses (2010)
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Cognitive Systems Engineering Courses (2010)
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PPI Upcoming Participation in Professional Conferences
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