Safety of Connected Health
Connected Health encompasses a wide variety of technologies that can improve delivered healthcare both in terms of quality as well as cost. The main philosophy behind this approach is the interaction...
View ArticleEngineering Dependable Systems of Systems (EDSoS) 2014
Engineering Dependable Systems of Systems (EDSoS) 2014: Systems of systems (SoS) are large-scale systems composed from the combination of several, often pre-existing, systems to provide some emergent...
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Protecting our Forests: Proactive and Reactive surveillance employing...
Employing technological advances in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) along with the available aerial and space platforms can enable us, to setup up a monitoring and management system for delivering...
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Profiling Systems Using the Defining Characteristics of Systems of Systems...
Editor’s comment: This forum, has often expressed the opinion that the term SoS is not a true/false characterisation. Different systems exhibit SoS related characteristics to different degrees. D....
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Prevalence of Pathologies in Systems of Systems (Keating & Katina)
As System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) continues to mature and evolve as a field, there is a natural search for transcending themes and perspectives. The confluence of these themes and perspectives...
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Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse – the Nature and Importance of Engineering...
The Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City featured a spectacular multi-storey open atrium, crossed by suspended walkways on each floor. During a dance competition on the 17th of July, 1981, the atrium...
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Mind the Feynman Gap – Why You Should Care What Other People Think
The “Feynman Gap” refers to the gulf between the way engineers perceive and talk about risk, and the way managers understand risk. It is named after Professor Richard Feynman – drummer, lockpicker,...
View ArticleThe Impotence and Importance of Pre-flight Safety Briefings – An Introduction...
In October 2013 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that they were relaxing restrictions on the use of personal electronic devices on aircraft. The ban on using PEDs during takeoff and...
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“Dataware” for Accidental Systems and Systems of Systems
Systems Engineering (SE) as a discipline addresses multiple layers of abstraction to characterise safety-critical and safety related socio-technical systems. The five-layer model [9] for example models...
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New Developments in Model-Based Systems of Systems Engineering – COMPASS School
We invite PhD students and post-doctoral researchers to participate in the COMPASS September School. The focus of the School will be the new developments in modelling and analysis of Systems of Systems...
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