Abstract

This talk will describe a new methodology for the synthesis of radar system architectures from reusable component specifications. Our approach is motivated in part by the observation that requirements engineering processes and the Internet are both chaotic systems-of-systems and, as such, the former can benefit from advances in the latter. We will describe a representation model for reusable component-specification pairs (which can be implemented in Semantic Web technologies) and design procedures for the bottom-up synthesis of pulse-doppler radar systems from reusable (sensor) components. A plan of work for the development of sensor-specification pairs, XML databases, and graphical user interfaces will be presented.

Biography

Mark Austin is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with joint appointments in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR). Mark has a B.E. (First Class Honors) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

For the past six years, Mark Austin has been Director of the Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) Program. He is also Associate Director of the Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory at ISR, and past co-chair of the Commercial Practices Interest orking Group (CPIWG), International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). In this joint capacity, Mark has led the design and development of a new MSSE core curricula. See, for example, ENSE 621: Systems Modeling and Analysis . The relevance and utility of our curricula has been field-tested through development and delivery of two- and three-day systems engineering short courses at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, General Electric Information Systems (GEIS), and General Electric Transportation Systems (GETS). Mark has published approximately 50 papers and is principal author of Introduction to Engineering Programming in C, MATLAB, and Java , published by John Wiley and Sons, 1998.