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SERC Workshop: Model Based System Assurance

Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - Thursday, December 7, 2017

  • « “A BOOTCAMP – Introduction to Ontology for Systems Engineers”
  • SERC Workshop: Managing Acquisition and Program Risk »

The SERC is hosting a Workshop on “Model Based System Assurance” from December 6-7, 2017 at Washington DC. Workshop attendance is by invitation only, with attendance limited to 70 delegates.

Research Workshop Leaders:

  • Tom McDermott, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Professor Ye Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology

Abstract: Model-Based Engineering (MBE) is seeing increased applications in the conception, design, integration, verification and validation (V&V) of mission critical systems. However, most current model based formal verification and validation methods, e.g. Model-Based Testing (MBT), remain focused on system components and have limited scalability and applicability to testing of large system behaviors. Today there is increasing system complexity and uncertainty associated with cyber-physical systems employed as system-of- systems, and increasingly sophisticated threats. It remains a challenging problem to effectively and efficiently identify and remove latent critical faults and improve overall system assurance within given system constraints and priorities, for both researchers and practitioners, across many domains. In particular, a mission critical cyber-physical system must consider of all classes of system failures, whether inherent or malicious, in rapidly changing external system-of systems contexts. Future methods, processes, and tools must go beyond traditional quality assurance scope to include emergent dimensionality of the design space through the evolving quantification of concepts such as flexibility and resilience.

This workshop is focused on identifying and prioritizing appropriate research questions related to next generation system assurance, i.e. Model-Based System Assurance (MBSA), that have two significant attributes – relevancy from a practitioners’ perspective, and uniqueness and rigor from a research and academic perspective. We use the word “assurance” in association with safety, security, reliability and resilience as system design attributes. These attributes are achieved intentionally through a systematic and rigorous modeling, searching, and analysis of how the system could fail to meet its mission objectives, followed by the development and implementation of engineered features that provide design margins to compensate for threat uncertainty, aided by our ability to test these features as assurance hypotheses.

This 2-day research workshop will address the state of the art and practical challenges in Model Based System Assurance, and investigate related research opportunities. Building from previous SERC research in Cyber-aware Systems, Engineered Resilient Systems, and Systemic Assurance, the workshop will focus on methods, processes and tools that reuse and innovate modeling techniques in MDE, support the automation of test design, as well as balance cyber mission assurance versus risk in today’s cyber threat environment.

AGENDA

December 6, 2017

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Time
Topic
Lead
8:30WelcomeProf. Tom McDermott, GaTech
8:45Introductory Remarks: Priorities with regard to System Assurance (Security, Safety, Reliability) within a Digital Engineering/Acquisition EnvironmentMs. Kristen Baldwin
DASD, Systems Engineering
9:15Featured Talk: Model-Based Development: What’s New? What’s Needed?Professor Nancy Leveson, MIT
10:00Coffee Break
Government Perspective – Challenges and Opportunities with Enhancing System Assurance in a Digital Engineering Environment:
10:15Challenges with Realizing Robust System Security in Complex SystemsMs. Melinda Reed
Deputy Director, ODASD – Systems Engineering)
10:45Challenges and Research Priorities with Digital Engineering as an enabler for Trade Space Exploration/Systems AnalysisMs. Philomena Zimmermann,
Deputy Director, ODASD – Systems Engineering
Industry Perspective – Challenges and Opportunities:
11:15Hardening Legacy Systems and Cyber Resilient System Architectures Mr. Irby Thompson, StarLabs
11:45Functional Modeling for Model Based System Assurance
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Dr. Gustavo Quiros and Dr. Archimedes Canedo
Siemens, Princeton NJ)
12:15Lunch Break
13:00Featured Talk: Model-Based Testing of Complex Concurrent Systems: Lessons Learned and Future PerspectivesDr.Ed Brinksma, TU/Twente, and
Mr. Jan Tretmans, ESI and the University of Nijmegen
13:45Featured Talk: Between Testing and Verification: Dynamic Software Model CheckingPatrice Godefroid, Microsoft
14:30Afternoon Break
14:45Parallel Breakout SessionsProf. Tom McDermott, GaTech
Dr. Ye Yang, Dr. Lu Xiao, Stevens
17:00Reception and Dinner
Featured Talk: Integrating Modeling and Simulation into Safety Program
Mr. Mark Denicuolo, FAA

December 7, 2017

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Time
Topic
Lead
8:30Welcome/AnnouncementDr. Ye Yang, Stevens
8:45Featured Talk: Advancing Model Based System Assurance for Complex SystemsDr. John W Evans, NASA
9:30Featured Talk: Leverage from Models: Inherent Limitations and Open Questions Prof. Fred Schneider, Cornell University
10:15Coffee Break
10:30IoT and Trust
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Dr. Jeff Voas, NIST
11:00MBSA for cyber failure detection and recovery Dr. Cody Fleming, UVA
11:30MBSA for cross-scale resilienceDr. Val Sitterle, GaTech
12:00UML Testing Profile: A Language for Model
Based Test Automation
Mr. Marc-Florian Wendland, Fraunhofer
12:30Lunch Break
13:30Breakout groups on MBSA research needs
(With afternoon break at 14:30)
Dr. Tom McDermott, GaTech
Dr. Ye Yang, Dr. Lu Xiao, Stevens
16:00Breakout group summary presentationsDr. Tom McDermott, GaTech
Dr. Ye Yang, Dr. Lu Xiao, Stevens
16:30Workshop summary and paths forwardDr. Tom McDermott, GaTech
Dr. Ye Yang, Stevens
17:00Closing
Reminder – this event is by invitation only. Registration does not guarantee participation. Confirmation will be sent by Workshop Organizers by November 15th.
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Start:
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
End:
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Event Category:
SERC Workshops

Venue

20 F Street NW Conference Center
20 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States
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Phone:
2026721515
Website:
http://www.20fstreetcc.com/

Organizer

Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Email:
serc@sercuarc.org
Website:
https://www.sercuarc.org/
  • « “A BOOTCAMP – Introduction to Ontology for Systems Engineers”
  • SERC Workshop: Managing Acquisition and Program Risk »
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