The System of Systems Engineering Collaborators Information Exchange (SoSECIE) is a web-based seminar series organized by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (SE) in association with the National Defense Industrial Associations’s SoS Engineering committee. The goal of this series is to provide guidance, education and training for SoS and dissemination of engineering best practices within the government, military, contractors, academia and International partners.

The webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 15th from 11 am-12 pm ET.

Speaker: Dr. Léonard Petnga

Title: Semantically Enabled Model-Based Systems Engineering of Safety-Critical Network of Systems

Abstract: This briefing describes a novel approach to the development and integration of semantics to the model-based systems engineering and operation of safety-critical network of systems. Engineering models work directly with formal domain and meta-domain (especially time and space) knowledge that are determinate, provable (ambiguity free) and executable. Knowledge is encoded as semantic blocks, which are an integration of ontologies, rules, and communication and computation interfaces. These concepts are exercised in a collision avoidance problem involving autonomous agents at a traffic intersection.

Bio: Dr. Léonard Petnga is an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He holds a Masters in Systems Engineering and PhD in Civil Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a former Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Scholar at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a former Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Scholar in the Systems Integration Division (SID) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2013, he won the Best Paper Award at the 11th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER2013). His research focuses on knowledge structures for Modelbased Systems Engineering (MBSE) and integration of complex systems with an emphasis on CPS. His work involves the development of procedures for reasoning and integration of system behavior and structure across domains with applications in transportation (air, ground, water), aeronautic and Internet of Things (IoT).

For more information, contact the SoSECIE Webinar Coordinator to be added to the e-mail list for future announcements, to obtain access instructions, or to make suggestions for future presentation topics.