[aklug] IEEE Alaska Monthly Luncheon for March -- March 4, 2010 (fwd)

From: Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>
Date: Wed Mar 03 2010 - 08:00:11 AKST

Guys:

This isn't specifically IT-related, but it is pertinent for large scale
systems engineering. If any of you want to attend you're welcome to do so.
Getting a speaker of this caliber for these kind of subjects are rare up
here, so don't pass this up. :-)

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:54:23 -0900 (AKST)
From: Arthur Corliss <corliss@digitalmages.com>
To: IEEE-ALASKA-SECTION-MEMBERS@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG,
     IEEE Alaska Section ExComm <alaska-section-excom@IEEE.ORG>,
     ieee@lists.uaa.alaska.edu
Subject: IEEE Alaska Monthly Luncheon for March -- March 4, 2010

Greetings:

My deepest apologies for the last minute nature of this month's luncheon,
but we had to jump through many hoops in order to secure this speaker in the
short time he's in the state. This month's topic (and speaker) present a
rare opportunity for us in Alaska, however, and will be worth it.

Date: March 4, 2010 (this Thursday)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Place: Sourdough Mining Company Restaurant
          5200 Juneau Street, Anchorage
          (South of International Airport Road, one block east
          of Old Seward Highway)

As normal, attendance is free. A buffet-style lunch will be available for a
fee of $20/person ($10/person for students).

The topic and speaker biography follows:

From Large-Scale Systems to SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS Innovations and Challenges
for the 21st Century

By
Mo Jamshidi
Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor
The University of Texas
San Antonio, TX, USA
moj@wacong.org

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 1960s 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 systems 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 SoSs 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 Centers SoS technology will be demonstrated. Some Animated and
experimental implementation as well as media movies and clips will be shown.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  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 IEEEs
  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.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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