Model-based System-of-Systems Engineering

Aim

After completing the course, participants will have a good understanding of how System of Systems (SoS) can be studied, created, and used with the help of concepts, technics, and methods within the field of model-based engineering. In addition to this, students will:

• Understand what defines a system and get an overview of the traditional systems engineering field.
• Be able to characterizes an SoS and its unique properties.
• Be able to use model-based tools for modeling and evaluating SoS.
• Be able to create and work with various system models for analyzing an SoS.
• Be able to apply knowledge and methods within SoS engineering on a project in order to study SoS properties.

Content

Today's products are becoming increasingly complex, while at the same time, they are extending to several disciplinary domains. Therefore, we need to develop new ways that allow designers to take into account the effects of collaboration, instead of just focusing on the optimization of one system at a time. The study of SoS is a research area that brings together systems, organization, operating environment, and management in one single picture with the purpose of exploring the design space. The course will include the following parts:

• Systems Engineering - processes from subsystem development to the life cycle perspective.
• System properties and balancing between different requirements and disciplines.
• Concepts, terminology, and methods for developing and studying SoS.
• Analysis, modeling, and simulation of SoS.
• Introduction to Agent-Based Simulations (ABS) as a tool for analyzing SoS.