A half-day symposium on

REQUIREMENTS, RISK AND VALUE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

 

Organised by the EPSRC 'SIMP' Project

http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~simp/public_pages/overview.htm

City University London

18th July 2002

 

This event, held half-way through the EPSRC-funded SIMP project, reports intermediate results as a important contribution to the UK's expertise in systems engineering and systems integration. The event is also intended to explore the exploitation of SIMP's results, and to build links with other systems engineering research institutions, projects, programmes and research-active organisations.

Background

SIMP is a 3-year EPSRC project that began in October 2000 and is funded under the Systems Engineering and Systems Integration initiative.  The project addresses the problem of risk and uncertainty management in major systems engineering projects. It is investigating whether recent research developments in Bayesian Belief Networks, socio-technical systems engineering and scenario analysis can help major defence systems manufacturers (such as BAE SYSTEMS) with risk, uncertainty and requirements conformance management.

One of the main objectives is to provide a systems engineering process that integrates the above approaches and complements the use of the Inclusive Value Management (IVM) method that has been used within BAE SYSTEMS. The first year of the project has seen the partners make excellent progress toward this goal. By anchoring the research in a common live defence system case study the academic partners have developed prototype systems that concentrate on their complementary areas of expertise, while at the same time highlighting the scope for integration between them.

Who should attend?

Practitioners, vendors and academics interested in all aspects of systems engineering, but in particular members of other EPSPC systems integration projects, key BAE SYSTEMS staff, staff from leading UK and European systems engineering organisations (defence and business), and academics from the software engineering and systems engineering communities.

Programme

The half-day programme is in 3 parts: (1) presentations by the project partners; (2) mingle sessions to see SIMP demonstrations, with buffet lunch available; (3) breakout sessions led by selected individuals to establish further SIMP-led and -related activities:

10.00 - 10.20:        'Overview of SIMP project', John Potter, BAE SYSTEMS
10.20 - 10.45:       'Scenario-driven Systems Engineering', Dr Neil Maiden, City University London

               
10.45 - 11.10: 'Methods and Tools for Socio-Technical Systems Engineering',

                Professor Alistair Sutcliffe, UMIST
11.10 - 11.35:        'Risk Assessment on Complex Projects using Bayesian Nets',    

                Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary, University of London
11.35 - 12.00: 'The IVM Approach', Professor Philip M'Pherson.
12.00 - 13.15:    Lunch and software presentations
13.15 - 14.30:   Two parallel breakout sessions:

                1. Joint research with other SII and EPSRC projects, chaired by

                Bob Malcolm of Ideo

                2. Establish a SIMP user and exploitation group to provide

                regular feedback on SIMP processes, methods and tools, and to

                exploit SIMP results commercially after the end of SIMP through

                commercial and/or public funding, possibly by John Potter of BAE

                SYSTEMS

14.30 - 14.45:   Report back from breakout session leaders and wrap-up session
14.45:              End of event


Registering for the symposium

Places at the event are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis , so book early. To reserve a place, please complete and return the following registration form:


Registration Form

Please return the completed registration forms to Raquel Monja, Centre for HCI Design, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB. Tel: . Fax: . E-mail:

Please attach duplicate registration forms if more than one delegate is attending.

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