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A G Hessami
Professor of Systems Assurance & Chief Engineer Atkins Global
SMC Chapter Chair, UK&RI
Chair, Industrial Applications TC
Tel: +447803259306
E-mail: A.G.Hessami@IEEE.Org
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IEEE SMC Systems Safety & Security TC
by A G Hessami
Scope:
The incessant demand for better value, increased functionality
and enhanced quality underlies the drive towards innovation and exploitation
of emerging technologies. Whilst these bring a mixed bag of desirable
properties in modern products, services and systems, they are often
accompanied by complexity, uncertainty and risk. The performance of
products, services, systems and undertakings is a measure of their utility,
output and perceived or real emergent properties. The key facets to
performance can be summarized as;
Whilst the above dimensions are reasonably distinct
and often inter-related, the key differentiation between safety and security
aspects is broadly as follows; safety is freedom from harm to people caused
by unintentional or random/systematic events whilst security is freedom
from loss caused by deliberate acts mostly perpetrated by people. In this
spirit, security is principally characterized by intent and causation
as opposed to strictly being an output performance indicator reflecting
degrees of loss or gain. Other than hard (Technical, Commercial) and soft
(Quality and Value) performance criteria, the rest are mainly measured
probabilistically in terms of risk or reward due to inherent uncertainties.
The overall utility and success of any endeavor essentially
amounts to getting the correct balance between these hard and soft performance
attributes of the goal being pursued. The optimization of these factors
poses a major challenge to the duty holders and decision makers today
since it demands understanding and competence in social, behavioral,
commercial, legal as well as technical engineering disciplines. In this
spirit, systems assurance comprises the portfolio of methods, processes,
resources and activities adopted to ensure products, services and systems
are designed and operated to deliver a required blend of desired performance
measures whilst remaining free from undesirable emergent properties
which pose a threat to health, safety and welfare of people, commercial
damage to the businesses and harm to the natural habitat.
Objectives:
The TC on systems safety and security assurance would
endeavor to foster research, development, publication, training and
dissemination of the art and science of systemic assurance comprising;
- Systems specification
- Requirements Analysis/Specification and Target Setting
- High Integrity Systems Design
- Qualitative and Quantitative Systems Safety and Security analysis
- Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Probabilistic Safety and Security Performance Forecasting
- Systems Risk and Reward Management
- Demonstration of Compliance against Standards and Legal Requirements
The Systems Safety and Security Assurance discipline
and the predominately analytical activities therein have a significant
synergy with the SMC Society’s interests and scope. In this spirit,
a Technical Committee is formed to act as a focal point for the development,
practice and promulgation of systems assurance know how. We welcome all
Systems and Cybernetics practitioners to join this TC and contribute to
these humane goals.
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IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecturer Program provides opportunities for
SMCS members to meet and interact with the following lecturers for
the year 2005: |
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Speaker: Donald E. Brown
Title: Learning from Simulations
Speaker: William A. Gruver
Title: Distributed Intelligent Systems: Technologies
and Applications
Speaker: Lawrence O. Hall
Title: Learning from Large Amounts of Data
Speaker: Tsu-Tian Lee
Title: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Speaker: Daniel S. Yeung
Title: Feature and Sample Reduction for Classification
Problems
Speaker: Mengchu Zhou
Title 1: Deadlock Control in Automated Manufacturing
Systems
Title 2: Clustered Water and Bio-signal Networks
- an Emerging Area for Systems, Man and Cybernetics Research
For more information about the DL program
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The IEEE SMC Society is accepting
applications and recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers, Distinguished
Lecturers Program (Please visit DLP
websiteand the links therein). The successful candidates will
be appointed for a two year term to begin January 1, 2006, with
a possible two year extension. Potential applicants are encouraged
to send a biosketch, abstracts of two lectures, and availability
for lectures in 2006 to the Vice President of Memberships, Tsu-Tian
Lee president@ntut.edu.tw
The successful candidate must be a member of the SMC Society in
good
standing. All applications must be received prior to November 1,
2005. |
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| Congratulations
to the following members of the SMC Society who were elevated to the
IEEE Senior Member grade at the last meeting of the IEEE Admission
and Advancement Review Panel. |
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June
2005 Senior Member
Qilian Liang
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Stanko Strmcnik
Tao Zhang
August 2005 Senior Member
Charles J. Kim
Joseph O. Palmiter
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