Keynote Speakers
Mo M.
Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, A. Fellow-AIAA, Fellow AAAS,
Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS) received BS in EE, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR, USA in 1967, the MS and Ph.D. degrees in
EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in
June 1969 and February 1971, respectively. He holds three honorary
doctorate degrees from Azerbaijan National University, Azerbaijan,
1999, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2004 and Technical University
of Crete, Greece, 2004. Currently, he is the Lutcher Brown Endowed
Chaired Professor of the University of Texas Systems and working at
the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has also been the
founding Director of Center for Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE
– ace.utsa.edu) at the University of New Mexico in 1995, and has
moved the Center to University of Texas, San Antonio in 2006. He was
a Senior Research Advisor at US Air Force Research Laboratory, KAFB,
NM from 2002-2005 and 1984-1990. He was also a consultant with US
Department of Energy Office of Industrial Technologies and DOE
Laboratories Oak Ridge, Sandia and Los Alamos. He was also an
advisor for the NASA Headquarters from 1998-2004 and on NASA JPL's
Pathfinder Project mission and Surface Systems Track Review Board.
He has worked in various academic and industrial positions at
various national and international locations including with IBM and
GM Corporations. In 1999, he was a NATO Distinguished Professor in
Portugal conducting lectures on intelligent systems and control. He
has over 600 technical publications including 62 books (12 text
books), research volumes, and edited volumes. His most recent edited
books are on system of systems engineering. Six of his books have
been translated into at least one foreign language. He is the
Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5
journals including IEEE Control Systems Magazine and the IEEE
Systems Journal. Dr. Jamshidi is a Fellow or member of 8 societies
and academies. He is the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and
IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award and the IEEE
CSS Millennium Award, and NASA Public Service Award in 2006. He is
currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics and the IEEE Systems Council. He is an Honorary
Professor at three Chinese Universities and Deakin University in
Australia. In October 2005 he was awarded the IEEE’s Norbert Weiner
Research Achievement Award. He is a UK Royal Academy of Engineering
distinguished fellow at Cardiff University, Wales, UK in 2009-2010.
He spent a one-month lecture tour in UK in summer 2009. In May 2009
he was selected a member of the review board of US-Vietnam Education
Foundation.
From Large-Scale Systems to SYSETM OF SYSTEMS – Innovations and Challenges for the 21st Century
ABSTRACT
Almost 5 decades have passed from the organized formulation of
Large-Scale Systems (LSS) engineering as a branch of control and
systems engineering. In the 1960’s modeling, analysis and synthesis
of complex systems were being pursued by a number of research teams
in the US and overseas. Among them were teams at MIT, Illinois, Case
Western Reserve, and Virginia in US, Toronto in Canada among others
in Europe and Japan. Today, Systems engineering is at a crossroad
now at the beginning of the 21st Century. One of the main challenges
of any paradigms in systems engineering is being able to handle
complex systems under unforeseen uncertainties. A system may be
called complex if its dimension (order) is too high and its model
(if available) is nonlinear, interconnected, and information on the
system is uncertain such that classical techniques cannot easily
handle the problem. A system of systems (SoS) is a “super system,”
or an integration of complex systems coordinated together in such a
way to achieve a wider goal with possible higher significance.
Applications of SoS are quite extensive – examples are future combat
mission, Global Warming, Mars missions, Air Traffic System, Global
Earth Observation System, Electric Power Grid System, Energy
systems, etc. In system of systems engineering, almost all aspects
of system engineering need to be revisited. Two aspects are sensing
and control. From the control problem point of view, the difficulty
arises that each system’s control strategy can not depend solely on
its own on-board sensory information, but also due to communication
links among all the neighboring systems or between sensor,
controllers and actuators. The main challenge in design of a
controller for SoS’s is the difficulty or impossibility of
developing a comprehensive SoS model, either analytically or through
simulation, by and large, SoS control remains an open problem and
is, of course, different for each application domain. Should a
mathematical model be available; some control paradigms are
available which will be the focus of this chapter. Moreover,
real-time control – which is required in almost all application
domains – of interdependent systems poses an especially difficult
problem. Nevertheless, several potential control paradigms are
briefly considered in this chapter. These control paradigms are
hierarchical, decentralized, consensus-based, cooperative and
networked. In this presentation system of systems are being
introduced, challenges are brought up and potential solutions and
needs are discussed. Special emphasis on UTSA ACE Center’s SoS
technology will be demonstrated. Some Animated and experimental
implementation as well as media movies and clips will be shown.
MengChu
Zhou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the
Director of Discrete-Event Systems Laboratory at New Jersey
Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Petri nets,
collaborative systems, intelligent automation, and sensor networks.
He has over 360 publications including 10 books, 150+ journal papers
(majority in IEEE Transactions), and 17 book-chapters. He is an
editorial board member of Enterprise Information Systems and Journal
of Zhejiang University-Science C: Computers and Electronics,
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans and IEEE Transactions on
Industrial Informatics, and Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Automation Science and Engineering. He was General Co-Chair of 2003
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
Washington DC, October 5-8, 2003, Founding General Co-Chair of 2004
IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, March
21-23, 2004, and General Chair of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on
Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.
April 23-25, 2006, and 2008 IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and
Engineering, Washington D.C., August 23-26, 2008. He was Program
Chair of 2010 IEEE International Conference in Mechatronics and
Automation, 1998 and 2001 IEEE International Conference on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Emerging
Technologies and Factory Automation. Dr. Zhou was the recipient of
NSF’s Research Initiation Award, CIM University-LEAD Award by
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Perlis Research Award by NJIT,
Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, and Outstanding
Contribution Award by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He
was the founding chair of Discrete Event Systems Technical
Committee, and founding co-chair of Enterprise Information Systems
of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He became Fellow of
IEEE in 2003.
Role-based Collaboration
Collaboration is a common activity in a society of people.
Collaboration means to work together. It commonly mentions a joint
intellectual work. We can infer that collaboration or group work is
required when one single person cannot complete a whole task.
Computer-based systems are tools to extend the abilities for people
to work. They should not only provide virtual environments or
platforms for people to work but also provide more technologies and
mechanisms to improve people's work. Clear role specification and
related mechanisms play an essential role in developing the
intelligent collaborative systems. In this talk, we intend to
clarify the concept of roles and role-based collaboration and answer
the following questions: What do we mean by roles in collaboration?
Why do we need them? How can we support them? What are their
implications in software engineering?
