Webinar 188: Adaptable Architectures and System Adaptability
Webinar 18: Adaptable Architectures and System Adaptability
Date & Time: Wednesday, 14 January 2026 at 12:00PM EST (17:00 UTC)
Presenter: Dr. Haifeng Zhu
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Abstract: Modern systems are more and more developed and deployed in complex, volatile, uncertain and ambiguous contexts, and often result in significantly overrun costs, delayed delivery schedule and other complications, especially with safety-critical systems such as aerospace products. Examples can be found in both commercial and military systems. In industry, changes in missions and requirements generally occur throughout a systems engineering (SE) lifecycle. Rigid architectures result in exorbitant rework to make the operational capabilities and commercial effort evolving with follow-on costs and repeated delayed deliveries. Adaptable architecture enables design adaptation that reduces costs and schedule delays when facing changes. During operations, complex missions and environments also require real-time adaptations. Due to the progress of AI, more intelligence is being built into systems, thus systems of systems and self-adaptive systems are becoming more commonly seen. All these call for concepts, processes and methods for adaptable architectures and adaptive systems, which are considered as a fundamental part of systems engineering practice in INCOSE SE Vision 2035. This talk will introduce basic concepts, methods and procedures of building adaptable architectures for systems. It will also summarize past 15 years of research and development as well as industrial uses in this area, and its support to other SE disciplines.
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Dr. Haifeng Zhu (IEEE Fellow) is a Technical Director for Model-Based Engineering (MBE) and Digital Engineering (DE) in BAE Systems, and the chair of the INCOSE Adaptable and Adaptive Systems Engineering and Management (AdaptSEM) working group. He has 20 years of experience mainly in aircraft systems as well as space systems, HVAC and elevator systems, and received high recognitions from industry, government agencies and academia. His work was used in well-known aerospace products including Pratt & Whitney GTF engines, Boeing 777X aircraft electrical systems, and International Space Station, etc. His work has also been collected into IEEE/INCOSE Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) and used in industry including Boeing and Raytheon etc. He has been serving a number of positions in academic and scientific communities, including as a general chair or a co-chair of technical program committees of several major SE conferences such as IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering and Complex Adaptive Systems Conference, and on editorial boards of INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal and IEEE Systems Journal. He is interested in advancing knowledge and technologies for humanity, and is a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award for Systems Engineering field, and the Outstanding Achievement Award - highest technical honor of United Technologies corporate research.
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