| Friday – April 15, 2011 |
| Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
| 7:00 | 5:00 | Registration | Coral Foyer |
| 7:00 | 8:00 | Continental Breakfast | Redondo Foyer |
| 7:00 | 5:00 | Exhibits | Redondo Foyer |
| Plenary Session | Redondo 1,2,3 |
| | Name | Title | Topic |
| 8:00 | 8:10 | Terry Rector | Director, COM DEV USA | Conference Administration |
| 8:10 | 8:20 | Azad Madni | Professor, Epstein School of Industrial and System Engineering, USC | Conference Chair Welcome |
| 8:20 | 8:44 | Yannis Yortsos | Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC | Systems Education and Research in Viterbi School of Engineering |
| 8:44 | 9:18 | Ron Sugar | Interview w/Azad Madni Northrop Grumman Corp, Chairman CEO Emeritus | From Young Systems Engineer to CEO of Northrop - Insights |
| 9:18 | 9:42 | Michael Ryschkewitsch | NASA Chief Engineer | NASA Model Based Systems Engineering Challenges |
| 09:42 | 9:57 | Break | Redondo Foyer |
| 9:57 | 10:21 | Dinesh Verma | Dean, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology | Open Academic Model for Extended Enterprise for System Engineering Research | Redondo 1,2,3 |
| 10:21 | 10:45 | Azad Madni | Professor, Epstein School of Industrial and System Engineering, USC | Integrating Humans with and within Adaptable Systems |
| 10:45 | 11:09 | Barry Boehm | Professor, Computer Science, USC | Balancing Systems Effectiveness, Resilience, and Affordability |
| 11:09 | 11:33 | Donna Rhodes | Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist, MIT | The Ancestor Effect: Implications for Systems Engineering Research and Education |
| 11:33 | 11:57 | George Friedman | Professor, Epstein School of Industrial and System Engineering, USC | The Value of Quantitative Measures in SE |
| 12:00 | 1:00 | Lunch | Seascape Ballroom |
| Break Out Sessions |
| Location | Redondo 2,3 | Bay Room | Catalina | Redondo Salon 1 | Esplanade | Marina |
| Track Lead | Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California | Regina Griego, Sandia Lab | Jennifer Bayuk, Stevens Institute of Technology | Jian Guo Delft University of Technology | Gerrit Muller, Buskerud University College | Barry Boehm and Jo Ann Lane, University of Southern California |
| Track Theme | Applied Systems Thinking | Model Based Systems Engineering I | Systems Assessment and Assurance | Systems Development, Design and Acquisition I | Model Applications and Approaches I | Value Engineering I |
| 1:00 | 1:30 | Mexico's Cartel Problem: A Systems Thinking Perspective (McGee) | Using Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Methods in Flight Test (Alvidrez) | Survey of NASA Mars Exploration Missions-Software Fault Protection Architecture (Jaunich) | Dependable Control Systems Design and Evaluation (Alho) | Improving Systems Engineering and Acquisition with a Formal System Utility Function (McKendree) | Towards a Framework for Systems Engineering Reuse (Fortune) |
| 1:30 | 2:00 | Systems Thinking-enabled Real Options Reasoning for Complex Socio-technical Systems and Programs (Madni) | Modeling the Management of Open Source Software Projects (Cowling) | Security V & V (Bayuk) | Software Design Patterns for Ontology-Enabled Traceability (Delgoshaei) | Model for Distributed Infantry Immersion Training Systems (IITS) (Acheson) | Total Ownership Cost Models for Valuing System Flexibility (Boehm) |
| 2:00 | 2:30 | Developing Systems Thinking Competencies through Facilitated Simulation Experiences (Perkins) | A Formal Method for Assessing Interoperability Using Architecture Model Elements and Relationships (Giammarco) | Challenges for Systems Engineering When Applied to Increasingly Autonomous Systems (Callow) | Integrate-Modify-Create: Applying Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Rapid Prototyping (LaTour) | Definition and Determination of Utility Metrics for Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) Tools Applied During the Concept Design of Novel Technologies (Lennon) | Developing a Value Improvement Model for Repetitive Processes: An Airport Security Body Scanner Case Study Example (Gibbons) |
| 2:30 | 3:00 | Geo-Statistical Approach to Estimating Asteroid Exploration Parameters (Lincoln) | Modeling Large-Scale Critical Enterprises (Griego) | Would A Rigorous Knowledge Base in Systems Pathology Add Significantly to the SE Portfolio? (Troncale) | Extending the Useful Life of a Product While Preserving Competitive Advance Through Product Line Architectures (Madni) | Selecting Development Strategy Under Pressure for Shortening Time to Market (TTM) (Frank) | Application and Validation of Concept Maturity Assessment Framework (Scharch) |
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Break | Redondo Foyer |
| Location | Redondo 2,3 | Bay Room | Catalina Room | Redondo Salon 1 | Esplanade | Marina |
| Track Lead(s) | Azad Madni and Maryann Hiller, USC Viterbi School of Engineering | Dustin Jepperson, SBIRS Program Office | Jon Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology | Moti Frank, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel | Paulette Acheson, and Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology | Ricardo Valerdi, MIT & Marilee Wheaton, The Aerospace Corporation |
| Track Theme | Healthcare and Medical Informatics | Model Based Systems Engineering II | Systems and Enterprise Architecture I | Systems Development, Design and Acquisition II | Model Applications and Approaches II | Value Engineering II |
| 3:30 | 4:00 | A Systems Thinking Approach to Address Sustainability in Healthcare Systems (Faezipour) | The Potential of Model Based Systems Engineering and the AP233 Standard for Space System Acquisition (Jepperson) | Adaptability: Lessons Learned from the B-52 Architecture (Condie) | Agile Systems Engineering Research in DoD Acquisition (Rodriguez) | The Application of Fuzzy Logic in Linguistic Variables to Determine Good Requirements (Acheson) | Improved Correlation for Systems Engineering Return on Investment (Honour) |
| 4:00 | 4:30 | Systems Model-based Public Health Insights through Handheld Platforms (Hovmand) | Relational Model Transformations: Application and Simulation for Space Systems Engineering (Okuda) | Ideas for a Decision Support System for Predicting Undesirable Emergent Properties (Tejeda) | Automating Trade Space Analysis in Systems Design (Kichkaylo) | Researching the Application of Pugh Matrix in the Sub-sea Equipment Industry (Muller) | Adaptability and Affordability Measures for Netcentric Command and Control Systems (Pitsko) |
| 4:30 | 5:00 | Understanding the Coevolution of Technology and Treatment in Military Psychological Health Service Delivery (Ippolito) | Using Discrete Event Simulation for Estimates of Semiautonomous Systems (Schneider) | Enterprise System Governance Using Resource Based View of the Firm: FAA NextGen Case Study (Darabi) | System-Level Reliability Analysis for Conceptual Design of Electrical Power Systems (Kurtoglu) | Base Camp Planning: A SysML Approach (Nottage) | Diseconomies of Scale in Systems Engineering (Marticello) |
| 5:00 | 5:30 | Gaps in Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Systems Perspective (Hiller) | Analyzing Social Systems Based on the Expression of Cultural Identity Through Artifacts, A Survey Approach (Moriarty) | Architecting for Emergence by Identifying and Characterizing its Sources (Dauby) | Systems Engineering of Software (Landauer) | Problem-Solving Style and its Impact on Engineering Team Effectiveness (Neill) | Expanding Constraint Theory to Determine Consistency and Computational Allowability of Multi-Dimensional Math Models (Phan) |
| 6:00 | 7:00 | Reception | Coral Foyer |
| 7:00 | 9:00 | Dinner Banquet Speaker: Stephen Welby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Systems Engineering | Seascape Ballroom |
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