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Effective and efficient preparation for the unforeseeable

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posted on 2016-05-04, 13:27 authored by Steve Hinsley, Michael HenshawMichael Henshaw, Carys Siemieniuch
This paper hypothesizes that a System-of-Systems (SoS) that is not fit-for-purpose is so because it cannot implement the correct, timely and complete transfers of Material, Energy and/or Information (MEI) between its constituents and with its external environment that are necessary to achieve a particular result. This research addresses the problem of maintaining a SoS fit-for-purpose after unpredictable changes in operation, composition or external factors by creating a method, implemented as an engineering process and supported by an analysis technique to enhance the affordance {“Features that provide the potential for interaction by “Affording the ability to do something” [1]} of SoS constituents for MEI transfer and reveal potential undesirable transfers.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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26th Annual INCOSE International Symposium

Citation

HINSLEY, S.W., HENSHAW, M. and SIEMIENIUCH, C., 2016. Effective and efficient preparation for the unforeseeable. IN: Proceedings of the 26th Annual INCOSE International Symposium, Edinburgh, 18-21 July 2016,15pp.

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© The Author(s). Permission granted to INCOSE to publish and use

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-04-18

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is a conference paper.

Language

  • en

Location

Edinburgh, UK

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