Systems Science Working Group

Promote the advancement and understanding of Systems Science and its application to SE.

Working Group Purpose & Mission

Mission and Purpose:

Mission:

To advance Systems Science and its application to SE.

Purpose: 

To provide a rigorous, underlying basis to the empirically derived practices of systems engineering that have evolved over time. We achieve this through the purposeful development, application, and validation of systems concepts and principles in systems engineering using rigorous scientific methods. 



Bridge

Transformation Enablers

TechOps Domain

96

Members

2012

Established

Chair

Javier Calvo-Amodio, Ph.D., F.ASEM

Co-Chairs

James Martin, Ph.D.

Harington Lee



Inquiries

[email protected]

Scope

The Systems Science WG contributes to advancing Systems Science research and application methods and their related concepts and principles, providing an underlying foundation for all Systems Engineering (SE) throughout the life cycle.

Goals

  1. Highlight linkages between Systems Science theory and the empirical practice of Systems Engineering. (e.g. short, mid, or long‐term)
  2. Promote awareness of Systems Science, its origins, methods, and possible futures.
  3. Facilitate the advancement of Systems Science methods, principles, and concepts.

Outcomes

The systems science working group is currently working on the following projects:

  • Heuristics Team
  • Bridge Team
  • Collaboration with the MBSE Patterns Working Group on mathematical foundations via the Hamiltonian principle
  • Applied Category Theory - A Categorical Theory of Systems
  • Transdisciplinary basis for SE

Additionally, the working group has worked on many projects over the years, each producing useful information. These products can be found on the project page for each at our WG wiki site:  https://sites.google.com/site/syssciwg/

  • Basic Structural Modeling
  • Better SE for INCOSE
  • SEBOK & Sys Sci BOK
  • Service Science
  • Sys Sci Education & Training
  • Systems of Innovation
  • Systems Philosophy for SE (NEW)
  • Systems Processes & Pathologies
  • System Top Level Categories
  • Unified Ontology of Science Systems

IW2025: International Workshop Focus

  • Provide an overview of the SSWG projects
    • SE Heuristics
    • Bridge Team
    • Mathematical foundations for SE
    • Transdisciplinarity
  • Extend an invitation to motivated INCOSE members to join our efforts

Planned Activities

  • Compilation and validation of SE Heuristics
  •  Explore and define the Mathematical Basis to SE via
    • applied category theory
    • the exploration and representation of SE concepts using the Hamiltonian
  • Define what is transdisciplinarity in SE

Planned Work Products

  • SE Heuristics tool
  • A transdisciplinary framework
  • Applied Category Theory
  • Application of Hamiltonian
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