Systems Engineering Research Links

The following links are provided for the convenience and information of the reader. INCOSE makes no claim of accuracy or correctness of the information contained at any of these sites.

Research Organizations

• National Science Foundation performs research in many science and engineering related topics.
• The Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland performs theoretical work to advance knowledge of systems.
• STEFFIE (SysTems Engineering Framework For Information Exchange), a similar collaborative research effort in the United Kingdom

Publications

• Systems Engineering - The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, the only professional journal dedicated to SE.
• Journal of Interactive Design and Process Science, publishing original work on commercial system design methods.

Related Research Projects

• Archonic.Net, a reference link managed by a SECOE participant that gathers information on archonic and autopoietic systems.
• Decision-Based Design Open Workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, explores the development of theories of design based on decision analysis concepts.
• FUTURES: Detecting the Early Signals, an open invitation to research in detecting environmental problems before they occur.
• iViP-APM: Adaptive Process Management, a Fraunhofer Institute, four year, $500M research project to develop an interconnected suite of tools that can define a virtual product to radically reduce time to market and cost of development.

Systems Organizations

• International Council on Systems Engineering, the SECOE parent organization
• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, sponsoring the study of large, complex system made up of electronic devices.
• IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, sponsoring the integration of the theories of communication, control, cybernetics, stochastics, optimization, and system structure towards the formulation of a general theory of systems, and the development of systems engineering technology to support operational man-machine systems.
• Society for Design and Process Science, Promoting the development of design and process science as applied to all traditional disciplines of engineering by sponsoring conferences and participation in other appropriate activities.

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