1. INCOSE IW11 MBSE Workshop
INCOSE (MBSE) Model Based System Engineering SoS & Enterprise Modeling Activity Outbrief Working Session
Jan 31, 2011
INCOSE IW11 MBSE Workshop
MBSE SoS/Enterprise Modeling Wiki page:

2. Outline Objectives Feedback
Feedback on strategy, priorities and breakout topics
Availability of data, case studies support metrics analysis
Recommendations on MBSE SoS/Enterprise Vision and Roadmap
Relevant Standards update
Ontology review (Foundation/Framework from DoDAF 2.0/IDEAS group)
Domains Represented & Feedback in Breakout Session
Total participants: 27
Aerospace/Defense, BioMedical, Fire Monitoring, MicroSat/CubeSat
Transportation, Medical Instrument, Construction, Automotive
Telecommunications, Tool Vendors
Topics Summary….TBS
Vision, Strategy & Roadmap…Scope of effort Enterprise emphasis
Concerns
Architecture Framework Ontologies / Conceptual Models
Standards Feedback
UPDM (Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF)

3. Group Concerns/Recommendations
Notes
Group Concerns/Recommendations
Case Study/Challenge Problem
INCOSE Enterprise: Mission/Goals/Vision, Business Processes, Organization, Technology Infrastructure (IT)
Scope & Priorities
Sample problem from UPDM - Search & Rescue
Military SAR, Wildfire, INCOSE Enterprise
Process
Google newsgroup? Facebook page?
Wiki page and references

4. Notes DoDAF 2.0 support for time modeling and change
US Army
Current State/Plans
Mission Support
Incremental approach…one step at a time
Emphasis on understanding the Enterprise
Business unit perspective
PLM Product lifecycle
Firesat
Cube sat - micro sats
University of Michigan Aerospace Dept.
Space comm & nav
Deep space network
Sandia
Consortium…modeling infrastructure
How much detail do you go to? Impact on stockpiles? Skills ?
Organizing the models and abstractions
Standard approaches to organize the abstractions
Time, change, adaptability
Interfaces, Context….drives requirements
Modeling and defining time….
Dynamic compositions
DoDAF 2.0 support for time modeling and change
Configuration as a concept to model the time changes
Decision driven design
Roadmap, what drives decisions
State changes related to decisions
Documenting processes, decisions, …
Ilities and how they drive the architecture
Bio medical
Instrument interoperability
Model as an integration platform
NASA (Constellation)
PLM, PDM, Enterprise Architecture
Hierarchy of processes
Theory of process modeling
How do you distinguish between abstraction levels
How facilitate coming into the middle of something

5. Notes End to end threads? What are the quality attributes
Model the environment
Vee model …. Relevant for all architecture/design approaches?
SoS issues exacerbate SE issues…
Quality
Completeness
How do you know your done
Communication to all stakeholders
How and what to communicate?
Optimization
Piece by piece
Bottom up vs Top down vs start in the middle
Infrastructure
SoS for IT
Different stages of development
Simultaneous development
How to establish and evolve continuously the architecture?
Differences between SoS and Enterprise
End to end threads?
What are the quality attributes
How does ATAM use/fit with MBSE for SoS and Enterprise
Model based enterprise archeology?
Model based
Theory to model process
Authoritative source
Using CORE to do capability analysis
Always in the middle
Model will never become the thing!
Need to accommodate reality!
Understandingg Humanitarian Relief Problem area
Cultural, Political issues
Alternative configurations
Take the population into account
Peoples reaction to relief efforts

6. Reference architecture
Modeling rules or other ad hoc methods for understanding how things change
Easier to communicate
Operational rules…..
Reference architecture
Move from SysML to UPDM?
Gold model, project management backbone to include engineering and other disciplines

7. Summary of Objectives Feedback