By Renee Stevens
With their skill to pass conventional obstacles and accomplish a degree of performance more than their part parts, mega-systems have helped businesses and executive agencies around the globe get to the bottom of complicated demanding situations that they another way couldn’t handle with stand-alone platforms. Engineering Mega-Systems: The problem of structures Engineering within the details Age offers a transparent knowing of the engineering of this category of systems—a procedure that calls for attention of accelerating software scale and the quick swap of underlying applied sciences. Written by way of Renee Stevens, a Senior vital Engineer on the MITRE company with a long time of expertise reading, engineering, and buying large-scale structures for the U.S. division of safeguard and different govt corporations, this e-book explains how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently assorted from that of large-scale monolithic platforms. It offers the vocabulary and framework had to discover the problems suitable to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into the Profiler diagnostic software that helps you comprehend the character and context of the procedure to hand and, on that foundation, decide upon the main acceptable strategies, instruments, and strategies. Stevens examines advertisement and executive purposes of mega-systems to supply perception into the modern demanding situations of engineering those platforms in 3 serious dimensions: engineering strategies, administration tactics, and the bigger context during which those structures are built and deployed. entire with case reports in engineering mega-systems that illustrate precious classes discovered and spotlight rising practices, this publication provides the knowledge and the instruments had to commence engineering, characterizing, and buying mega-systems throughout a number of dimensions.
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While the widespread commercial use of the Internet is a fairly recent phenomenon, the Internet concept, technologies, and processes evolved and matured over a long period of experimentation and development. , 2003) describe the transition from the initial concepts of the Internet envisioned by a small group of researchers to the commercial and social backbone that it has become: The Internet has changed much in the two decades since it came into existence. It was conceived in the era of time-sharing, but has survived into the era of personal computers, client-server, and peer-to-peer computing, and the network computer.
Chapter 4 then offers a framework for understanding these systems that takes into account their technical characteristics and behavior, the environment in which they are expected to operate, and the stakeholder context. Chapter 5 identifies some of the known challenges in engineering and acquiring mega-systems, and discusses the relevant systems engineering processes. It introduces a Profiler for use as a self-assessment tool to help in characterizing the nature and context of the system of interest and also as the basis of a situation model that could help systems engineers select and adapt processes, tools, and techniques to the circumstances at hand.
In the case of the air defense mega-system, the high-, medium-, and low-altitude missiles provide comprehensive, overlapping protection against enemy airframes flying from ground level to 60,000 feet or more above the earth. Evidence emerging from both the military and commercial worlds indicates that these benefits are, in fact, being realized. In the illustrative air defense example above, the DoD expects to gain these advantages in terms of enhanced persistence, range, reach, and agility. An analogous commercial example might describe the benefits that would accrue from information sharing across the supply chain in terms of reduced cycle times, reduced inventory levels, improved sales, and improved customer services.