SS 2001 - Call For Papers

SS 2001 - Call For Papers & Tutorials

INCOSE UK Chapter Spring Symposium 2001 May 14 16, 2001 Systems Engineering for the Third Millennium Developing the Art and Science to face new challenges
Engineering evolved during the second half of the second millennium as a process for harnessing technology to produce products to support human-centric activity. As engineering became more specialised societys expectations of engineering it increased. These fostered the need for an overarching process to co-ordinate and integrate engineering and related activities. From these beginnings, systems engineering has emerged in the last 60 years.
Timetable	Formats	Tutorials
Systems engineering is the interface between engineering and its customers: commerce and society. It has proved so useful and successful that it has been adopted by non-engineering, more human-oriented disciplines. In order to meet the challenges of these new applications, systems engineering has broadened its tool set to embrace soft methods, many of which were originally developed in the human sciences. Thus systems engineering has evolved to provide an integrating conceptual framework for understanding stakeholder (including customer and user) needs; for exploring the solution space to determine the preferred solution; and for co-ordinating all the specialist activities that are needed to realise the selected solution. The discipline of systems engineering now straddles the traditional boundary between the Sciences and Humanities. It has become subject to complex, sometimes contradictory influences. During the 2001 Spring Symposium we would like to explore both the achievements of systems engineering and the challenges facing it. What is the current state of systems engineering? How will it develop in the future? What are the driving forces behind the development of systems engineering? What new skills do systems engineers need to acquire? What new process concepts need to be developed to formalise the application of SE beyond the traditional hard systems boundaries? What emerging technologies can be exploited to enhance systems engineering tool capabilities? Papers are invited that will illustrate and illuminate these issues and stimulate debate and action. A selection panel comprised of INCOSE greybeards will review offered papers and make a selection based on relevance, interest and variety to ensure a successful symposium. Each selected paper will be published in the Symposium Proceedings and its author will be invited to give a 20-minute symposium presentation to convey the essence of their paper. If you wish to offer a paper please submit a half page synopsis together with your credentials to the symposium co-ordinator Mike Prince at Timetable Synopses are required by 15th January 2001 Prospective authors will be advised whether their papers are accepted, rejected or on the standby list by 15th February 2001 Full and final written papers for inclusion in the Symposium Proceedings to be submitted by 15th April 2001 Symposium 14th to 16th May 2001 Formats Papers should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word 97 or 98. The title should be centred and followed by authors and their contact details. This should be followed by a full width summary paragraph. The main body of the paper should be in two-column format with embedded* illustrations and with references and author biographical notes at the end. (*The embedded illustrations should also be provided as separate files) Presentations should preferably be produced as Microsoft PowerPoint files for electronic projection. However, hard copy view foils are also acceptable. Tutorials The first day of the symposium will be dedicated to tutorials. If you wish to offer a tutorial on a topic related to the symposium theme please submit your proposal to the symposium co-ordinator Mike Prince at Tutorials of half day or whole day duration would be welcome. The same timetable as for papers applies.