Service Systems Engineering: Emerging Skills and Tools

Engineering Tools for the Integration of Service-oriented Production Systems

Engineering frameworks are currently required to support the easy, low-cost, modular and integrated development of production systems, addressing the emergent requirements of reconfigurability, responsiveness and robustness. This paper discusses the integration of High-level Petri net-based service-oriented frameworks with 2D/3D engineering tools, allowing the digitally design, configuration, v...

Engineering Resilient Systems : Models , Methods and Tools

Software-intensive systems are becoming widely used in such critical infrastructures as railway, airand road traffic, power management, health care and banking. In spite of drastically increased complexity and need to operate in unpredictable volatile environment, high dependability remains a must for such systems. Resilience – the ability to deliver services that can be justifiably trusted des...

Method engineering: engineering of information systems development methods and tools

This paper proposes the term method engineering for the research field of the construction of information systems development methods and tools. Some research issues in method engineering are identified. One major research topic in method engineering is discussed in depth: situational methods, i.e. the configuration of a project approach that is tuned to the project at hand. A language and supp...

Enterprise Systems Architecting: Emerging Art and Science within Engineering Systems

With the growing complexity of systems, there is a corresponding increase in the complexity of the enterprises that develop, operate, and sustain such systems in an increasingly global environment. This drives the need to take a broader view of enterprises as systems in themselves to which we must apply the principles and practices of architecting. The current practice of Enterprise Architectin...

Genetic Algorithm Tools for Control Systems Engineering