Special Sessions

Special Sessions

Special Session 1: Research at INCOSE Italy

Special Session 2: Instrumentation systems under harsh environments

Special Session 3: Methods and Tools for Mechatronic Systems Engineering

Special Session 4: Theoretical Foundations of System Engineering (THEFOSE)

Title: Research at INCOSE Italy

Time: Wednesday, September 30 11:00 - 12:45
Room: Bramante 14
Objectives of the special session
The main objective of the special session is to collect the research contributions of the academic members affiliated with the Italian Chapter of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering), so as to give a picture of what is going on in Italy in the systems engineering research field.
INCOSE is an international not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems.
The INCOSE Italy Chapter groups most of the researchers and industry practitioners who carry out research and development activities in the systems engineering field.
The Chapter has organized the First INCOSE Italia Conference on Systems Engineering (CIISE 2014), which has been held at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" on November 24-25, 2014.
The Chapter has also been strongly involved in the setup and the organization of the postgraduate Master Degree in Systems Engineering, established at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" since 2012, as well as in the organization of similar ongoing efforts.
The proposed special session aims to collect significant research contributions that have been given to the systems engineering field in various research domains, from ICT-based engineering to mechanical and aerospace engineering, thus providing an opportunity of exchanging and discussing relevant experiences.
We are confident that the special session is relevant for the First IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE) and could contribute to raising significant interest and discussion at conference time.
Organizing Committee
  • Eugenio Brusa, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Andrea D'Ambrogio, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy
  • Alfredo Garro, Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
  • Carlo Poloni, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Duration

The special session is planned to be allocated in a time slot of 1.5 hours, with four papers to be presented.
The time allocated to each paper is 20 minutes, along with a final wrap-up and discussion of 10 minutes.
Paper Recruiting Strategy
Papers to be presented at the special session will be collected by invitation only. Selected academics of the INCOSE Italy Chapter (among which the ones who are part of the organizing committee) will be invited to submit a contribution.
Contact
Prof. Andrea D'Ambrogio
Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Impresa
Via del Politecnico, 1
00133 Roma (Italy)
Phone/Fax: +39 06 72597381

Title: Instrumentation systems under harsh environments

Time: Tuesday, September 29 15:15 - 17:00
Room: Bramante 14
Aim of the proposed Session
Environmental monitoring based on distributed sensors are widely used in high risk applications such as nuclear sites, aerospace vehicles or underwater installations. The proposed session seeks submission of recent research progress in sensor instrumentation and acquisition electronics for systems and environmental monitoring under harsh environment. With the increasing systems complexity, the need for monitoring of physical parameters has never been greater in aerospace, nuclear and defence industries driving research towards new challenges. Requiring versatility, modularity and powerful processing capabilities, new instrumentation systems are leading the change to older more rigid architectures.
Furthermore, it is increasingly difficult to satisfy the ever more stringent legal requirements that are imposed in terms of radiation monitoring for example in nuclear fields or in terms of reliability insurance in aerospace domain. Therefore, beside the technical capabilities, it is more and more necessary to fulfill performance of auto tests, remote diagnostics, reliability, safety, maintainability and risk assessment.
Possible topics are related but not only to the following aspects
  • Instrumentation technologies based on versatile interfaces and reconfigurable electronics
  • Multi-sensor platform for data acquisition and systems monitoring : Structural Health Monitoring, System Health Monitoring, Smart Environment …
  • Sensors/Actuators technologies for environment monitoring under harsh conditions (Radiation, temperature, pressure, magnetic fields ….)
  • Hardened front-end for sensor interfacing
  • Condition monitoring and maintenance of complexes machines, process or plants
  • Remote monitoring systems
  • Advanced measurement and data processing for complex engineering system
  • Elaboration of laboratory tests in order to qualify, certify or validate a safety level
Contact
Dr. Hamza Boukabache
+41227663202
CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
CH-1211 Genève 23
Suisse

Title: Methods and Tools for Mechatronic Systems Engineering

Time: Part I: Tuesday, September 29, 15:15 - 17:00
Room: Bramante 11

Time: Part II: Wednesday, September 30, 08:45 - 10:30
Room: Bramante 14

Aims of the session:
Designing mechatronic systems involves multidisciplinary engineering teams to deal simultaneously mechanics, electronics, automatic control and computer science. The integration of all these domains generates multi-physics couplings such as thermal effects, electromagnetic compatibility and vibrations that can affect the overall system behavior. In order to deal with this huge diversity and preserve consistency and efficiency, new dedicated methodologies with relevant design framework are compulsory to support mechatronic modeling and simulation tools and languages. Moreover, most of the mechatronic systems are critical systems (aircraft, automotive, medicine…) and safety considerations are often to be taken into account. Thus Model-Based System Engineering seems to be a reasonable candidate for managing mechatronic systems design, provided that some developments are undertaken and tailored for mechatronic design. This special session will mainly focus on issues about integration in MBSE of multi-physics modeling and safety assessment (MBSA) for mechatronic systems design.
Main topics to be addressed by this special session:
  • Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) for mechatronic systems design: methodologies and processes, design tools, modeling languages, design framework;
  • Multi-physics concerns in MBSE for mechatronic systems design:
  • MBSA (Model-Based Safety Assessment) concerns in MBSE for safety-critical mechatronic systems design: dedicated framework and methodologies.
Organizing committee:
Jean-Yves Choley, Supméca, Paris, France
Stanislao Patalano, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Faïda Mhenni, Supméca, Paris, France
Moncef Hammadi, Supméca, Paris, France
Contacts:
Jean-Yves Choley
Supméca
3 rue Fernand Hainaut
93400 Saint-Ouen
France
Stanislao Patalano
University of Naples Federico II
Department of Industrial Engineering
P.le V. Tecchio, 80
80125 Naples
Italy

Title: Theoretical Foundations of System Engineering (THEFOSE)

Time: Part I: Wednesday, September 30, 13:45 - 15:30
Room: Bramante 12

Time: Part II: Wednesday, September 30, 16:00 - 17:45
Room: Bramante 12

Description:
System engineering has experienced multiple successes over the years in various industrial projects with a strong emphasis in defense and aerospace. Recently, system engineering have gained several contributions from theory however the field still lacks a strong theoretical foundation. This request for more theoretical foundations come from both academia and industry in order to make the best of system engineering practices and experience in increasingly multidisciplinary projects. Several research topics need to be addressed such as formal definitions of system engineering terms and concepts, systems semantics, model composability, category theory and system engineering, complexity theory of multidisciplinary systems , formal analysis of system engineering processes and standards but also all theoretical computer science impacts on languages (e.g. SysML) and tools used by system engineers. This session contributors will also provide papers discussing the integration of quantitative methods into MBSE methods and processes. Examples of quantitative methods include formal methods, value driven design, petri-nets, design space optimization. This session will also deal with issue on the integration of the quantitative methods into SysML and its variants. Finally, the session will also call for papers proposing new research directions and tutorial papers in the theoretical foundations of system engineering.

Organizers:
Professor Omar Hammami, ENSTA PARISTECH, France
Dr. William Edmonson, NC A&T State University, National Institute of Aerospace, USA

Contact:
Prof. Omar Hammami
ENSTA PARISTECH
828, Bvd des Maréchaux
91762 Palaiseau cedex
FRANCE
+33-1-8187-2033
+33-6-6809-3338
[email protected]