Improving Complex Systems Today

Underestimation in the "When It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better" Phenomenon in Process Improvement.- Automation Tools Supporting the Development of Information Standards for Complex Systems.- Use of Structured Total Approach in Developing a System for Emergency Power Generation for Aircraft with Fly by Wire.- System CE of Space Payload Design Aquarius Instrument.- Systems CE for the Conception of an Attitude & Orbit Control System.- Systems CE of a Hypersonic Accelerator Vehicle.- Attributes Balance on the Adoption of Platform based Solutions for Satellites.- Petri Nets for Systems CE.- Systems Support Eng.: Looking Beyond The Physical.- Domain-Centred Functionalities Discovering for Testing Systems Functionalities.- Comparison of Domain-Centered & Context-Centered Systems Functionalities.- CE Applications & Lessons Learnt in Oil Refinery.- Analyzing Influence of Absence of CE on Pakistan's Economy from Perspective of Developed Countries Using It.- Green Transportation Strategies & Impact Evaluation Using System Dynamic Modeling.- System Dynamics Evaluation of Renewable Energy Policies.- Initial sizing model of PV/battery system with battery scheduling algorithm.- Feature Performance Metrics for Software as a Service Offering.- Automating Services for Spacecraft Conceptual Design via an Enterprise Service Bus.- An Approach to Adapt Collaborative Architectures to Cloud Computing.- MimoSecco: A Middleware for Secure Cloud Storage.- Implementation of CE in Software Development.- Concurrent Planning Using Semantics-driven Reconciliation.- Research on Service Encapsulation of Eng. Software Based on Jini.- Ontology Development for the Integration of CAD Models in a Collaborative Environment.- Ontological Modelling of the Aerospace Composite Manufacturing Domain.- A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design Automation of Wire & Pipe Routing through Complex Aerospace Structures.- The Cluster Grouping Approach of NM Forecasting Model for BookPublishing.- A

Daniel Frey is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems at MIT and he is a leading researcher of design theory and methodology, especially in the field of quality technology and robust design. He has had extensive consulting experience with many industries. Therefore, he has a very good sense of proportion between theory and practice, and he received the Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching at MIT. Thus, he is not only conducting cutting-edge research, but he is also very good at making materials comprehensible. He is now co-director of the MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design Alliance and is making efforts to establish a new direction in research and education in design engineering.

Shuichi Fukuda held a workshop titled "Computer aided Cooperative Product Development" at MIT with Ram Sriram in 1989, at the same time as DARPA started their concurrent engineering "DICE" project. Thus, he is one of the pioneers in this field. He published the outcomes of this workshop with Ram Sriram and Robert Logcher as Lecture Note No.437 from Springer in 1991. He worked for a long time as an executive board member of the Engineering Information Management Systems group, ASME. He is now Chair of the Computers and Information in Engineering Division, ASME, which developed from this group. In addition, he served as Vice President at the IEEE Reliability Society, so his activities extend over wide areas. He is President of ISPE, which hosts the International Conference on Concurrent Engineering.