RISE

Systems Engineering Challenges

International Workshop in Russia «RuSEC 2010»

Moscow, September 23–24, 2010

Designing and implementing complex industrial systems in today's environment is hardly imaginable without systems engineering. To support the construction of nuclear power plants, off-shore oil platforms, hydroelectric, aerospace and other complex systems, leading engineering companies and technical universities have developed efficient methods of life cycle management, requirements engineering, system architecture development, configuration and data management.

Systems Engineering of the XXI century goes through the stage of renovation that was caused by the increasing complexity of created systems and their requirements. As a result the systems engineering community has faced new challenges that require new approaches and further development of the existing methods and the system of standards, as well as upgrade in training and education of qualified personnel.

The international Workshop is expected to increase awareness of Systems Engineering in our country, promote exchange of experience in the relevant fields of systems engineering and highlight the breakthrough trends in systems engineering development and related engineering achievements.

The Workshop Terms And Conditions

• The Workshop provides for international and national participation.
• Russian and English are the official languages of the Workshop. Simultaneous Russian-English and English-Russian interpretation will be provided for all presentations.
• Participation is open, so individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply.
• Applications should be in English or Russian languages.
• Additional information about applications can be found on the workshop web-page:
  rise-russia.org/rusec2010.
• RuSEC-2010 organizers invite to participate in the workshop specialists in the fields of life cycle management, systems engineer-ing and boundary disciplines.
• Workshop proceedings will be published in Russian and English, as well as on the workshop web-page rise-russia.org/rusec2010.
• Workshop Participation in all Workshop activities is free-of-charge.
• The Workshop organizers will provide visa support and hotel booking at workshop rates. Visa application deadline - 10th of August 2010.

The Workshop Topics

• Systems engineering theory. The connection between systems engineering and systems thinking.
• Knowledge management in the fields of systems engineering and systems thinking.
• Complex systems. System of Systems. Emergence.
• Model-based and semantically-enabled systems engineering. Requirements modeling.
• New types of systems. Special features of their life cycles. Enterprise engineering, technology engineering, systems families engineering. Parallel engineering.
• Life cycle management of complex industrial systems.
• Standardization. Methods of engineering assurance case.
• Agile methodologies in systems engineering. Situational method engineering.
• System solutions for quality (safety, security, maintainability) monitoring and control.

Presentations (Russian and English versions).

Venue: VNIIAES, Ferganskaya 25, Moscow

Final program

Workhshop program

1. Systems Engineering Challenges and Vision

Petr Schedrovitsky -- Challenges of Adoption of Systems Engineering as Applied Management Methodology

Why it needed systems engineering approach and standards when manage life cycle of complex engineering objects. What was done in Rosatom during last 2.5 years of systems engineering and life cycle management implementation efforts. Challenges, their causes and ways of solutions.

Petr Shedrovitsky is deputy of director general of Rosatom, director of Science and technology directorate of Rosatom. He is advicer to education and science minister of Russian Federation. Many years he serve as consultant in regional development, industrial policy, innovation activity, education.

Gennady Arkadov -- Systems Engineering in VNIIAES

VNIIAES is a system architect (engineer-architect) in a project of new nuclear powerstation design development project VVER TOI. VNIIAES is not in systems engineer role only but developing nuclear powerstation control systems. Therefore VNIIAES meet multiple traditionaБЮl and new challenges of engineering complex software-intensive systems and needs state-of-the-art systems engineering methods for adequate design solutions. For current VNIIAES tasks most importance have methods of model-oriented requirement engineering, engineering of system architecture with affordability and safety trade-off, ontology-based engineering data ingegration.

Gennady Arkadov graduated from Moscow Energy Institute as termal phisicist, and then graduate from University Higher School of Economics. He is Ph.D candidate in technic sciences, Ph.D candidate in economics. He is working in nuclear industry more than 20 years. Since December 2005 he is director general of VNIIAES, engineering firm that provide scientific support of nuclear power stations throughout life cycle. He is chair of "Technical diagnostics and instrumentation systems" section of Rosatom Science and Technical Counsel, member of Expert Counsel of Gosduma (RF Parliament) Industry, Transportation and Energy Committee. Co-author of books "VVER Vibronoise Diagnostics", "Diagnostic systems of VVER", "Nuclear Power Station Equipment and Piping Reliability and Life Cycle Optimisation".

Stanislav Shulepov -- Systems Engineering of Shipbuilding Industry Parts Catalog

Parts catalog of shipbuilding industry should serve throuhgt all ship life cycle from conception to retirement. Different life cycle stages relates to various data representation formats and equipment classifiers. Contemporary methods of systems engineering in general and ontology-based data integration methods in particular needed to engineer industry-wide equipment catalog system. Every shipbuilder will use their legacy data format and classification standards whith common part catalog and equipment vendors will enjoy support of only one industry part catalog having confidence that shipbuilders can find all these parts in one place.

Stanislav Shulepov graduate from Far East State University as a lawer and have m.s. degree in electric power nets and systems from Moscow Energy University. In 2003 Shulepov was appointed as Energostrojinvest-holding CEO first deputy in charge for corporate governance, finance, business strategy, project management and innivation. While he was at Energostrojinvest-holding there was accomplished projects of reengineering and modernization of high-voltage line 500KV "Dalnevostochnaja-Vladivostok", reconstruction of 750KV "Leningradskaya" substation, construction of 330KV substation "Novgorodskaya", construction of first stage 500KV substation "Khekhtsir".

Since 2010 Stanislav is director general of state-owned Sudoexport. Sudoexport not only export and import contemporary river and marine ships but provide organization of technical support in design, construction and modernization of shipyards, docks and coastal supply infrastructure.

Eduard Naumov -- Russian Smart Grid System of Systems Engineering

Russia already have common power grid (UES) that is different in comparison with many other countries, but not Smart Grid yet. Introducing Smart grid to Russia electric power industry related to enourmous technical, law, management, supply, contractation etc. issues that touch hundreds thousands of separate individually managed systems. Thus this is question of system of systems engineering. There are not too much knowledge of SoSE methods despite of intense discussions. But there are several appoaches that lead to evolution of separate power systems of multiple owners into new Smart Grid system of systems with emergent properties.

Means of this directed evolution of Grid in Russia will be standardisation, as usual for system of systems. What is not usual that is special attention to data integration ontology that should enable communications of Smart Grid information systems in industry-wide scale. There is plans to provide not only Smart Grid technology standards in ordinary text form, but simultaniously publish this new standards in semantically-enabled form with use of ISO 15926. This will enable immediate usage of this standards in grid modernization projects while povides additional verification of content of these standards.

Eduard Naumov recieved MS in engineering and physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and MBA (e-business) at the Academy of National Economy under the Goverment of the Russian Federation and course of MBA (international business) at Grenoble Graduate School of Business. He works at Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. 1999-2006 years he serve as first deputy of FGUP "SKC Rosatom" (Minatom), since 2009 up to present time he is Director General of non-commercial partnership INVEL.

Eduard Naumov interested in optimal control theory and controllers engineering, information transmission and processing in controllers, design principles of active and adaptive systems, systems and process simulations.

Victor Batovrin -- Systems Engineering Education in a Global Environment

This talk is about development of Systems Engineeering education in Russian Technical Universities. There is need to create several new contemporary SE curriculum. Will be presented a set of principles of SE curriculum design.

Victor Batovrin is head of the Information Systems Department at the Moscow State Institute of Radio engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University) - MIREA. Up to today MIREA trained about 15,000 students. Dr. Batovrin teaches systems engineering and information systems design courses at MIREA and he also gives systems engineering courses at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) - MIPT and National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (MISIS). Jointly with Prof. A. Kostogryzov he has prepared a Russian version of ISO/IEC 15288 that was adopted as a national standard in 2005.

Dr. Batovrin is an Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education in Russia (1997). He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Open Education (http://www.e-joe.ru). Dr. Batovrin has served as consultant for many Russian companies and government organizations, both at the management and the technical level. He is a member of information systems architecture's expert section of expert advisory group of Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia.

Anatoly Levenchuk -- Systems Engineering Challenges. Russian View.

INCOSE have SE VISION 2020 document that declared roadmap to 21st century model-based systems engineering. Leaders of European INCOSE Chapters suggests at EuSEC 2010 conference that European local chapters would start review process of SE VISION 2020 and contribute their insights to new revision of that document.

This talk is show results of more than thirty regular INCOSE Russian chapter meetings where was discussed future of systems engineering. Brief review of SE challenges and new approaches that will be elaborated in detail in other talks of this Systems Engineering Challenges Workshop.

Anatoly Levenchuk career as a consultant start since 1989. His clients was Russian Commodity Exchange, RINACO, RELCOM, VKT, Bank of Russia, Ministry of Economics, RAO UES Russia, Omskenergo, Dalenergo, OGK-1, Fortum Russia, Rosenergoatom, VNIIAES, E4, Energostrojinvest-holding, Sudoexport and many others.

He is interested now in model-based systems engineering, ontology-based data integration, systemic organizational design, situational method engineering. His blog (http://ailev.ru) have more than 1300 subscribers. Now he is president of Moscow (Russia) strategy consulting company TechInvestLab, that have motto “organizer of organizers”. He is INCOSE Russian chapter president, member of Expert Counsel at Industry Policy Committee of Federation Counsel of Russian Federation.

Open Discussion

2. Engineering of Systems Engineering: Models of Systems Engineering Method

César González-Pérez -- Creating and Using Model-Based Methods for Systems Engineering.

Systems engineering endeavours require methods that are rigorous and proven, yet well adjusted to the problem at hand. Pre-defined, standardised methods that apply the “one size fits all” principle may look appealing because they are readily applicable, but can hardly cope with the messy and idiosyncratic nature of the real world. As an alternative, the approach of situational method engineering suggests that no single method can solve all the problems; on the contrary, problem-specific methods must be constructed by assembling pre-existing components from a repository according to the requirements of each particular endeavour. Different components in the repository specify different aspects of the process to be followed, the people to be involved and, very importantly, the products to use and generate.

Using a product-based situational method engineering approach, the product aspect of a method is described from various perspectives: what products are expected to be relevant, what models can be used to represent them, and what languages (formal or not), and with which notations, can be used to express them. During the enactment of the method on a particular endeavour, this results in a work product pool with predictable but flexible dynamics that allows fine-grained traceability between models and even model units. It also supports a people-aware, opportunistic approach to method enactment that avoids the highly prescriptive machine metaphor that is often adopted by workflow-oriented method frameworks.

This talk will introduce situational method engineering and its application to the construction and enactment of methods using the work product pool approach, in which models play a fundamental role. The ISO/IEC 24744 metamodel and the OPEN/Metis method will be used as reference case studies.

Dr. Cesar Gonzalez-Perez is a Staff Scientist with The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa ) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela, where he focuses on the application of semantic technologies and engineering aspects to the research on and management of cultural heritage. In particular, his current research interests include advanced conceptual modelling, situational method engineering and metamodelling. Prior to this, Cesar has worked at the University of Santiago de Compostela, the European Software Institute and the University of Technology Sydney. Cesar has been a co-editor of standardisation projects leading to the publication of the AS 4651 and ISO/IEC 24744 standard metamodels, and has published over 50 academic works. Cesar has started up three companies, including Neco, a consulting firm specialising in software development for complex domains and the deployment of the OPEN/Metis methodological framework.

Tyson Browning -- Challenges and Tools for Integrative Modeling across a System’s Life Cycle.

Engineering a complex system is challenging. Moreover, meeting functional requirements within a budget and a deadline, while satisfying varied stakeholders, is even more difficult. Still more difficult is sustaining a high level of system value in the long term, even as stakeholders’ desires change. Yet, these are the challenges that attract systems engineers and managers, and the challenges that society must confront when depending on complex, engineered systems.

This presentation will offer thoughts on integrative models and tools for use on such problems. These tools include the design structure matrix (DSM), project architecture, multi-domain modeling, life cycle modeling, architecture frameworks, and design for adaptability. The tools currently exist but have not yet been fully integrated or implemented in software. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on future directions, opportunities, and open questions.

Dr. Tyson R. Browning is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He teaches Operations Management (MBA Core) and Project Management (MBA elective) and conducts research on managing complex enterprises, projects, programs, and processes. He has served as a consultant for several organizations, including General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Seagate, Southern California Edison, and the U.S. Navy. Prior to joining TCU, he was a Senior Project Manager (E6) in Integrated Company Operations at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, where he was the technical lead and chief integrator of the enterprise process architecture and author of company policies and processes driving the transition to a process-based company. Before joining Lockheed Martin, he worked with the Product Development Team of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Abilene Christian University and two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has authored over 50 papers on aspects of managing complex engineering projects—publishing in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal of Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, Project Management Journal, Systems Engineering, and others. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Systems Engineering.

3. Model-based Requirements Engineering

Donald Firesmith -- The Challenges of Engineering Safety and Security Requirements.

A complete and well-engineered set of safety and security requirements is critical if safety and security are to be properly built into safety- and security-critical systems. Yet, these two important classes of requirements are often poorly engineered, and many major challenges stand in the way of the collaboration needed among safety, security, and requirements engineers. This short presentation identifies and describes these challenges, their negative consequences, and introduces a collaborative process that addresses them. This presentation is taken from the manuscript of my next book, Engineering Safety- and Security-related Requirements, which will be published next year by Auerbach.

A senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Donald Firesmith works in the Acquisition Support Program (ASP) where he helps the US Department of Defense acquire large complex software-intensive systems. With 30 years of industry experience, he has published 6 software and system engineering books in the areas of process, object orientation, and system architecture engineering. He is currently writing a book on engineering safety- and security-related requirements. He has also published dozens of technical articles, spoken at numerous international conferences, and has been the program chair or on the program committee of several conferences. He has taught several hundred courses in industry and numerous tutorials at conferences. He is also the founding chair of the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) Repository organization www.opfro.org, which provides the world's largest free open-source website documenting over 1,100 reusable method components.

Fedor Alexandrov, Irina Postolenko -- Safety and security ontology in systems engineering

This talk define contemporary requirements (conceptual and pragmatic) to safety and security engineering and provide examples from nuclear power industry. The talk introduce a notion of "directed development" and suggest include into role set of systems engineer "development manager". Also will be touched security and safety standards and regulations

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Will be persented nuclear safety and radiation protection roadmap and defined requirements to development of ontology for nuclear safety and radiation protection systems engineering domain.

Fedor Alexandrov is deputy head of Federal centre of nuclear and radiation safety. Besides of candidate PhD in physics and math, he have strong skills in conflictology studies as well as safety and security problem solving. He is participant of Moscow Methodology Circle studies.

Irina Postolenko is head of knowledge management of Federal centre of nuclear and radiation safety. She is psyсhologist and methodologist. She is participant of Moscow Methodology Circle studies.

Ian Alexander -- Model-Based Requirements Discovery

Systems engineers are familiar with “all-inclusive” approaches such as IPSEs, UML/RUP and MBSE, some dating back 30 years and more. Few have delivered on their promises, perhaps because projects must consider many more factors than the obvious ones, and perhaps also because requirements remain undervalued “Cinderella” objects in systems engineering.

In this talk, the outlines of a simple, practical approach to Model-Based Requirements Discovery (MBRD) are sketched out. A worked example is used to show why each model – such as of stakeholders or of their goals – is needed, and how each model helps to fill a hole in project knowledge. The talk concludes with a metamodel for MBRD which reveals the interplay of familiar and some possibly less familiar requirement elements.

Ian Alexander is an independent consultant, trainer and author specialising in Requirements Engineering, often using DOORS / DXL as the platform. He is the lead author of three books on requirements: Writing Better Requirements; Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases; and Discovering Requirements. (http://www.scenarioplus.org.uk).

He is the chairman of the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (http://www.resg.org.uk). He is a Chartered Engineer.

Victor Agroskin -- Integration of High-level System Model, Cost Model, Environment Model and Life Cycle Model for Typical Design: Requirements Engineering and Architecture Options Definition Stage.

Modernization of a "Typical Design" for a specific technological platform sufficiently differentiates from a usual "greenfield" system design. High-level (architectural) technical and economic modeling is required to account for quite diverse stakeholders' base. For existing technological platform special interests include "true" business goals, continually changing safety requirements, and even highly specific technical solutions for particular subsystems. Such a broad range of interests dictates early move from simple "requirements gathering" practice to integral modeling of system and its operating environment, incorporating project's technical and economical aspects for a duration of its life cycle.

The presentation suggests approaches to work with heterogeneous models, based on different standards and modeling languages, with subsequent model integration. Examples include application of ISO 24744 and ISO 15926 standards, work in UML and Modelica languages, using Excel and Dymola modeling environments. Attention is particularly paid to the possibility of distributed work and standard-based integration of results achieved by specialized teams. The work is currently restricted to high-level system architecture, sufficient to represent basic architecture options. Suggested level of system's decomposition is determined by the need to represent the most important options to achieve desired modernization effect and perform simplified cost estimations at the early life cycle stages.

Victor Agroskin is a partner of TechInvestLab.ru consulting company since 2001. Has an experience in consulting since 1990, for seven years was managing business development and IT in investment banking industry. Was involved in investment and consulting projects in various industries, most of them in energy, transport and IT-technologies. Supervised economical and technical aspects of corporate restructuring and industry reforms for private and government clients, including e-government projects. Participated in a number of infrastructure projects - financial market infrastructure, exchange trading, network capacity distribution, etc. As an expert and industry representative, took part in several legislative initiatives.

Member of an Expert Council at Industry Policy Committee of Federation Counsel of Russian Federation. INCOSE member. Graduate of a Moscow 57th School, received MS in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University. Has publications in industry and financial periodics.

4. Models Data Quality and Integration

Matthew West -- Managing Systems’ Lifecycle Data with ISO 15926

A key element of data quality is the data model, providing the meaning and structure of data, and supporting consistency. ISO 15926-2 is a data model designed to support the integration of data from diverse sources through the lifetime of complex systems. To achieve this the data model has a rigorous ontological foundation based on 4 dimensionalism.

In my talk I will show how 4 dimensional analysis enables you to correctly identify the different kinds of object that are involved in systems, such as systems, system components, and system/equipment catalogues. I will also show how to use ISO 15926-2 to hold data about these things.

Matthew is a Director of Information Junction, which he cofounded in 2008. Before this he worked for Shell for 30 years. Since 1987 he was on the computing/business interface with a particular interest in information management, information quality, master and reference data, data modelling and ontology. He is a key technical contributor to ISO 15926 – “Lifecycle integration of process plant data including oil and gas production facilities” and has participated in the development of ISO 8000 – Data and Information Quality. Matthew is also a Visiting Professor in the Keyworth Institute at the University of Leeds, and author of “Developing High Quality Data Models”.

Ian Glendinning -- ISO15926 Reference Data – Readiness for Systems Engineering Use

ISO15926 has been evolving in use over a period 15 of years, in the same period that the internet and semantic web technologies have also developed. The ISO15926 model uses generic entity modelling with a “4D” Plant Asset Lifecycle view of the world and a reference-data library with a focus to date on the plant “product model”. Whilst extremely generic it is not obvious that this is necessarily appropriate to a systems engineering approach focussing on system and activity dependencies.

However ISO15926 is primarily technology-neutral and has a strong dependency on shared reference-data in actual use. This means that ISO15926 take-up in new focus areas, such as systems engineering, is made possible by extending reference-data by developing mappings to these from the domain of interest. Achieving this successfully is dependent on understanding the process by which the RDL is used and how this technology-neutrality permits different technology implementations appropriate to the application. However, accepting this reference-data dependency means that implementations depend on the quality and reliability of the global system (a federation of multiple systems) by which reference data is shared and its use managed. JORD (Joint Operational Reference Data) is a 2010 project to enhance the established POSC Caesar Association (PCA) Reference Data Service (RDS) in collaboration with FIATECH, in order to provide that scalable and reliable operation on which business use can depend.

Ian Glendinning (ian@glencois.com) is an independent consultant engineer and manager with over 30 years’ experience. Originally working in aviation with British Aerospace, Ian spent over 20 years in process plant engineering with Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, in pressure systems technology management and project engineering. Those projects included offshore platforms and onshore oil & gas terminals for Mobil, Statoil, BP and more; high temperature refinery units for BP, Shell, Exxon, Conoco, Texaco and many more, cryogenic units for Oman LNG and ETW Liquid Nitrogen, chemical and pharmaceutical plants for Dow, BASF, GlaxoSKB and more; conventional power generation and nuclear processing for CEGB, BNFL and more. After several brown-field revamp projects in field construction, handover to start-up and operations, and operational troubleshooting, Ian moved his focus into information management and a number of data-warehousing and information-portal implementations supporting these project lifecycle aspects.

Being continuously involved with standards-based information modelling and reference data since the mid 1990’s starting with industry collaboration projects of EPISTLE, PISTEP, POSC-Caesar, STEPlib and Synergy, with Shell, Chevron, Foster-Wheeler, PRISMTech, Oracle, Fluor and more, Ian has been instrumental in the development of ISO15926 “Template” modelling and the procedures by which reference data is used. This approach ensures that the maturity of users and applications can be matched to valid compliant use of ISO15926. Ian spent 4 years as VNET product architect and project manager with AVEVA and a further 4 years with Intergraph as SPF product manager and integration architect. After 2 years as industry consultant and ISO15926 specialist with DNV Energy, Ian is currently project manager of the JORD project for POSC Caesar Association and FIATECH.

Hannu Niemistö -- Simulation Model Integration in Systems Engineering Using Semantic Graphs. Simantics Experience and Roadmap.

Simantics is an open platform for simulation application development and integration. Its fundamental idea is to use semantic graphs as a uniform representation for model configuration and simulation results. I will talk about challanges we have faced during the development of the platform and solutions we have chosen. In particular, handling of dynamic data and large models, and integrating simulation software with design systems will be discussed.

Dr. Hannu Niemistö is one of the architects of Simantics platform developed in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. His background is in mathematical logic.

23 of September 2010

10:00 -- 18:00

24 of September 2010

9:00 -- 18:30

25 of September 2010

Excursion tours (Moscow) - optional