Reservations not required, but please contact Joanie Humbert ([e-mail] or 314-232-0703) by 25 January to attend, for a snack count and badging for non-Boeing attendees. Non-Boeing attendees, please contact Mike Mobley for meeting escort

1
January Meeting An Advanced Computational
Approach to System of Systems (SoS) Analysis
Architecting using Agent-based Behavioral
Modeling

• Speakers Cihan Dagli and Lou Pape
• Missouri Science Technology

Date Location 31 January 2013, Boeing Building
305 .1E, Conf Rm 190C Lunch 1100 a.m. -
Presentation 1130 a.m. - 1230 p.m.
Abstract The goal of this research is to model
the evolution of the architecture of an
acknowledged SoS that accounts for the ability
and willingness of constituent systems to support
the SoS capability development. A proof of
concept agent-based model (ABM) of the system
interactions is developed and integrated with a
genetic algorithm (GA) to explore the potential
architectural design space, using a fuzzy
associative memory (FAM) to evaluate candidate
architectures for simulating SoS creation and
evolution. The model evaluates the capability of
the evolving SoS architecture with respect to
four attributes performance, affordability,
flexibility and robustness. The method is
applied to an Intelligence Surveillance
Reconnaissance (ISR) acknowledged SoS as an
example domain. The agent-based model represents
a System Program Office (SPO) personnels
interactions with the acknowledged SoS manager,
and with the other Systems representatives. An
agent models each SPOs decision process and
interactions. Biography Dr. Dagli is Principal
Investigator on the SERC RT-37 task, leading a
team of eight researchers in this research. He
is Professor and Founder Director of Systems
Engineering Graduate Program at Missouri
University of Science Technology. He was the
leader of the ANNIE conferences for 20 years, an
international forum on engineering applications
of Fuzzy Logic and Systems, Neural Networks and
Evolutionary Programming. He continues to lead
the Complex Adaptive Systems Conference which
replaced it. Lou Pape is a PhD student in SE at
MST. He has been a Systems Engineer at Boeing in
St. Louis for 20 years. Previously he .worked on
both communication and high energy lasers. He is
a retired colonel in the USAF Reserve, having
worked on satellites and launch vehicles.
Reservations not required, but please contact
Joanie Humbert (Joan.Humbert_at_boeing.com or
314-232-0703) by 25 January to attend, for a
snack count and badging for non-Boeing attendees.
Non-Boeing attendees, please contact Mike Mobley
for meeting escort (cell 314-378-8632).