The design of a complex system traditionally relies on a systems engineering process that makes use of text documents and engineering data in multiple formats. The inherent limitations of the document-based manual approach have been targeted by the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach, promoted by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), which defines MBSE as "the formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout development and later life cycle" (INCOSE, 2007).
MDSE applies metamodeling techniques and automated model transformations, introduced in the more general model-driven engineering context, to the systems engineering domain, thus boosting the aforementioned advantages of the MBSE approach.
The talk first describes the principles and standards of MBSE and then focuses
on MDSE approaches by illustrating their application to the simulation-based analysis
of modern complex systems, i.e., large-scale heterogeneous systems, which are
usually composed of several subsystems
Biographies
Andrea D'Ambrogio is associate professor of computer science at the Dept. of
Enterprise Engineering of the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy). He has
formerly been assistant professor at University of Roma "Tor Vergata" and research
associate at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center of the West Virginia
University (USA). He is Director of the post-graduate Master degree in "Systems
Engineering", established at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata". Andrea
D'Ambrogio's research interests are in the software engineering field, specifically in
the areas of engineering and validation of system performance and dependability,
model-driven systems and software engineering, and distributed and web-based
simulation. In such areas he has participated to several projects at both European and
overseas level and has authored more than 90 journal/conference papers. He has
served as member of the program committee of various international conferences,
among which IEEE WETICE, ACM WOSP, ACM ICPE, SCS/ACM/IEEE
TMS/DEVS, ACM PADS and SIMUTools. He has been general chair of
SCS/ACM/IEEE TMS/
Lucio Tirone is Technical Director at Aster S.p.A., he has over 15 years of field experience, the first half of which spent consolidating his Electromagnetic background, in the development of object oriented software for the computation of e.m. propagation in complex urban/non-urban environments. Since then he has been involved in Systems Engineering activities for the analysis, design, implementation and validation of large technological projects in the Defense, Aerospace and Transport sectors. Certified CSEP, he is currently vice-president of the INCOSE Italia Chapter.