HFSSE 2015 - 2nd International IBM Symposium on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering

The 2nd International IBM Symposium on Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering provides a platform for addressing challenges in in human factors, software and systems engineering that both pushes the boundaries of current research and responds to new challenges, fostering new research ideas. Researchers, professional software & systems engineers, human factors and human systems integration experts from around the world will be presenting papers addressing societal challenges and next-generation systems and applications for meeting them. Papers will address topics from evolutionary and complex systems, human systems integration to smart grid and infrastructure, workforce training requirements, systems engineering education and even defense and aerospace. It is sure to be one of the most informative systems engineering events of the year.
Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:
Systems engineering core concepts
? Human systems integration
? Systems engineering workflow and management
? Lifecycle analysis and cost estimation
? Automated systems
? System reliability
? Technology and system maturity models
? Risk analysis and mitigation
? Total ownership cost
? Human Performance modeling
? Uncertainty modeling
? Architecture specification
? Requirements elicitation, definition, analysis and management
? Design methodologies and frameworks
? Software systems and software-intensive systems engineering
? Verification and validation methods
Model-based systems engineering
? Agent-based systems modeling and simulation
? System dynamics
? Computational systems engineering methods
? Discrete-event systems modeling and simulation
? Optimization methods
? Multi-method systems modeling and analysis
? System analytics and visualization
Systems engineering education and training
? Systems engineering workforce development
? Systems engineering knowledge capture and management
? Systems engineering education
? STEM
? Systems thinking
? Undergraduate and capstone courses
Next-generation systems engineering
? Systems-of-systems
? Complex adaptive systems
? Enterprises-as-systems
? Evolutionary systems
? Resilient systems
? Trusted systems and cyber security
? Self-learning systems and machine learning
? Expedited and agile systems engineering methods
? Cyber-physical systems
Multi-disciplinary approaches and needs
? Systems engineering and interactive computing
? Systems engineering and economic modeling
? Systems engineering and socio-technical systems
? Systems engineering and biomedicine
? Natural systems and bio-inspired design
Systems engineering applications
? Smart transportation
? Energy Systems engineering
? Air traffic control
? Communication and sensors
? Smarter products
? Unmanned systems
? IBM Smarter cities Applications
? IBM System engineering
? Defense and aerospace
? Healthcare systems
? Humanitarian systems & disaster response
? Information technology & software development
? Manufacturing & logistics
? Smart grid & infrastructure