Advances in Systems Engineering Interoperability: Engineering Design and Operation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 15335
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interoperability; software engineering; systems engineering; knowledge engineering; model-based systems engineering; service-oriented computing
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Interests: model-based systems engineering; reuse; simulation; air navigation; 4D trajectory management; machine learning; avionics systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development and operation of software-intensive complex systems is becoming more challenging than ever. The implicit need for the continuous delivery of new products and services (cyber-physical systems) in a timely and cost-effective manner is a cornerstone for the realization of Industry 4.0, especially in the case of safety-critical systems equipped with non-deterministic functions. The digitalization of engineering (DE) is also gaining momentum in the systems and software engineering discipline, with the aim of shifting the paradigm to the design and operation of these complex systems incorporating multiple engineering disciplines. In this context, interoperability emerges as a key enabler to build collaborative engineering environments in which people, processes, methods, and tools are perfectly synchronized to build complex systems making use of methods and techniques such as digital twins, simulation, model-based systems engineering, service-oriented computing, etc. The need of communicating and exchanging data, information, and knowledge between organizations, tools, and people is also increasing. To enable this, it is necessary to establish new mechanisms that can support engineers to easily represent and organize domain knowledge, integrate and exchange data, expose and consume functionalities, and manage the engineering process under a standardized and interoperable environment. This Special Issue aims to bring together research works and real-world use cases, scenarios, and approaches focused on the improvement of the software and systems engineering process through interoperable mechanisms applied to the design and operation of software-intensive systems.
Dr. José María Alvarez Rodríguez
Dr. Javier García-Heras Carretero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- interoperability in the engineering design process
- interoperability in the operation environment
- engineering methods and interoperability
- tools and platforms for interoperability
- data, information, and knowledge representation and exchange
- functionality and service representation and invocation
- languages and standards for content- and context-based interoperability in the engineering domain
- applications and real-world use cases of interoperability in the engineering lifecycle
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