Andrea D'Ambrogio

• Associate Professor
• University of Rome Tor Vergata

Requirements management is a key aspect in the development of software components, since complex systems are often subject to frequent updates due to continuously changing requirements. This is especially true in critical systems, i.e., systems whose failure or malfunctioning may lead to severe consequences. This paper proposes a three-step approac...

The engineering disciplines supporting, and supported by, simulation are in the scope of this chapter of the SCS M&S Body of Knowledge. The chapter provides descriptions for systems engineering, virtual and augmented reality engineering, and visualization engineering.KeywordsModeling and simulationSystems engineeringM&S based systems engineeringSim...

IoT-aware Business Processes (BPs) that exchange data with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, briefly referred to as IoT-aware BPs, are gaining momentum in the BPM field. Introducing IoT technologies from the early stages of the BP development process requires dealing with the complexity and heterogeneity of such technologies at design and analysis...

Modeling and simulation (M&S) techniques are effectively used in many application domains to support various operational tasks ranging from system analyses to innovative training activities. Any (M&S) effort might strongly benefit from the adoption of service orientation and cloud computing to ease the development and provision of M&S applications....

The ever-increasing adoption of innovative technologies, such as big data and cloud computing, provides significant opportunities for organizations operating in the IT domain, but also introduces considerable challenges. Such innovations call for development processes that better align with stakeholders needs and expectations. In this respect, this...

Process-oriented requirements engineering approaches are often required to deal with the effective adaptation of existing processes in order to easily introduce new or updated requirements. Such approaches are based on the adoption of widely used notations, such as the one introduced by the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard. Howev...

The Harwell Robotics and Autonomy Facility (HRAF), is a facility funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the integration, verification validation of autonomy systems and associated technologies from unit up to mission level. An essential capability of the HRAF core infrastructure is the provision of software-based simulation and modell...

Trends in the design of space systems shows an increasing level of autonomy as a key design driver to ensure the success of a mission. Consequently, there is a need to develop robust, flexible and modular tools to support the integration, testing and Verification and Validation (V&V) of these autonomy systems. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)...

MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) is considered a valuable and effective approach not only in engineering domains, although it appears to bring a potential assistance to artistic visions and initiatives. The cross-domain capitalization is the key to further innovation and advances in technology. This paper describes an MBSE approach, applied t...

The contribution «Enabling Business Analysts to implement Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) solutions using a Model Based approach» recalls that it is widely perceived that Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) solutions still have to provide their peak in terms of social and market benefits. In addition, market available solutions do not allow business analysts...

Modeling & Simulation (M&S) techniques have proven their effectiveness for several intended uses, from complex systems analysis to innovative training activities. The emerging M&S-as-a-Service (MSaaS) paradigm deals with the adoption of service-orientation and cloud computing to ease the development and provision of M&S applications. Due to its rel...

The combination of process modeling and simulation-based analysis provides a quantitative approach to analyze business processes, and to evaluate design alternatives before committing the required resources, to properly align operations with business strategies, improve operational efficiency, and gain competitive advantage. However, the use of sim...

The adoption of Modeling & Simulation (M&S) approaches is widely recognized as a valuable solution for enacting a timely analysis of business processes (BPs). Despite their relevance, the effective introduction of such approaches in the BP lifecycle is still limited, due to the know-how and skills for building and implementing a simulation model an...

This paper illustrates an approach, denoted as MDA-VIEW, for the automated generation of Web-based applications in the data management domain. The run-time application generated by use of the MDA-VIEW approach is ready to be deployed into a multi-tenant cloud environment. The approach takes into account both the fact that create, read, update and d...

ARP 4754A (Guidelines for Development of Civil Aircraft and Systems) promotes modeling and simulation for aircraft systems integration, requirements validation and implementation verification. DO-331, the model-based development and verification supplement to DO-178C (Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification) further...

Modeling and Simulation Based Systems Engineering is emerging as an integrative approach from the long lasting close interaction between modeling and simulation, and systems engineering. It is emphasizing the extensive employment of modeling and simulation through the life cycle of systems engineering. When the system of interest is safety-critical...

Modern systems are exposing an ever increasing degree of complexity also due to the heterogeneity of the involved components. Distributed simulation is widely recognized as an effective tool to carry out verification and validation activities for heterogeneous and complex systems. Unfortunately, the use of distributed simulation frameworks and rela...

The 7th edition of the CoMetS track aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from both the modeling and simulation (M&S) community and the collaborative environments community, in order to focus on innovative research contributions that address both the use of collaborative technologies in the field of M&S and the use of M&S met...

In many domains, Discrete-Event Simulations (DES) are usually used to reproduce the behavior of a certain system or process, where events are processed one after another in chronological and sequential order. Classical DES will no longer be a possible solution for Complex and Large-scale systems, System of Systems (SoS), and Performance Evaluation...

We are having seasons: summers and winters of many scientific disciplines. Many fields are experiencing hype cycles. Each one of us would remember “AI winter” from the history of Artificial Intelligence. Inflated expectations are followed by disappointment and eventually funding cuts. Renewing the interest takes then years if not decades. The Socie...

We are having seasons: summers and winters of many scientific disciplines. Many fields are experiencing hype cycles. Each one of us would remember “AI winter” from the history of Artificial Intelligence. Inflated expectations are followed by disappointment and eventually funding cuts. Renewing the interest takes then years if not decades. The Socie...

Distributed Simulation (DS) is widely recognized to provide a valuable support for systems engineering efforts. Various contributions have addressed the adoption of model transformation approaches to enable a more effective DS use, with specific application to the HLA (High Level Architecture) DS standard and the generation of HLA simulation code f...

The increasing complexity of modern systems makes their design, development, and operation extremely challenging and therefore new systems engineering and modeling and simulation (M&S) methods, techniques, and tools are emer- ging, also to benefit from distributed simulation environments. In this context, one of the most mature and popular stan- da...

In modern Software Engineering, Continuous De- livery (CD) is a development approach in which a software is iteratively developed in short cycles ensuring, for each cycle, that the new features are available to end users as soon as they are implemented and tested. CD aims at defining, building and releasing software with greater speed and frequency...

Recently, due to the increasing complexity and wider adoption of heterogeneous Large-Scale systems and System-of-Systems (SoSs), the management of requirements, properties, emergent behaviors, and risks of integrations by coupling existing components, is becoming more and more challenging. To address this complexity, suitable Modeling and Simulatio...

Today’s companies in high-tech industries develop products of high complexity which consist of complicated subsystems with many heterogeneous components integrated together. As the system complexity increases, it becomes increasingly more challenging to manage the tedious development process. The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) was pro...

SummerSim’18 is hosted by the University of Bordeaux, which is ranked among the top French universities for the quality of its education and research. A multidisciplinary, research-focused, international institution that leads an ambitious development program with its partners to further promote Bordeaux as a “Campus of Excellence”.

An effective analysis of business processes (BPs) is crucial for modern organizations, which are required to promptly react to rapid market changes and evolving customer expectations. A suitable integration of standard BP management approaches and emerging technologies and methodologies, such as modeling and simulation (M&S), cloud computing and mi...

The design and development of modern Large- Scale systems and System-of-Systems (SoSs) requires the use of new Modeling and Simulation (M&S) methods, models and techniques so as to manage their ever-increasing complexity. In this context, distributed simulation (DS) can effectively support the analysis and design of these systems by enabling the ev...

Stakeholder engagement in simulation projects is important, especially in healthcare where there is a plurality of stakeholder opinions, objectives and power. One promising approach for increasing engagement is facilitated modelling. Currently, the complexity of producing a simulation model means that the ‘model coding’ stage is performed without t...

During the Spring Simulation Multi-Conference 2017, a group of invited experts discussed challenges in M&S of cyber physical systems. This 2018 panel is a follow-on activity, asking how the combination of various simulation paradigms, methods-so-called hybrid simulation-can be utilized regarding complexity, intelligence, and adaptability of cyber p...

All the papers of the conference are available at https://informs-sim.org/wsc17papers/at_a_glance.html

The increasing complexity of modern Large-Scale systems and System-of-Systems (SoSs) makes their design and development extremely challenging. To face this difficulty new Modeling and Simulation techniques, methods, and tools are emerging and some of them take advantage of distributed simulation environments. In this context, the IEEE 1516-2010-Hig...

Stakeholder engagement in simulation projects is important, especially in healthcare where there is a plurality of stakeholder opinions, objectives and power. One promising approach for increasing engagement is facilitated modelling. Currently, the complexity of producing a simulation model means that the ‘model coding’ stage is performed without t...

MOD4SIM'17 aims at bringing experts in model-based, model-driven software and systems engineering from embedded, cyber-physical and software-intensive systems domains with experts in simulation together, with the objective to advance the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering and simulation-based systems engineering. The symposium...

MSaaS (M&S as a Service) is gaining momentum as an effective approach to bring the benefits of service-oriented architectures and cloud computing into the M&S field, so as to enhance interoperability, composability, reusability and reduce the cost of M&S efforts. Such significant advantages can be further enhanced by introducing automated model tra...

Business Process Management (BPM) is an holistic approach for describing, analyzing, managing, improving and executing large enterprise business processes, which can be seen as a number of related tasks that have to be executed in order to reach well-defined objectives. This paper introduces an approach to the specification and management of the re...

The paper describes the project “Integrated technologies for fire monitoring and first alert” proposed by the authors to satisfy technical requirements of the Firefighter Bodies with particular attention to the monitoring of wood fires and release of chemical materials. The target system is composed of three sub-systems: sensors to detect target pa...

The long lasting close interaction between modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems engineering disciplines is leading to a more integrative approach, namely M&S based systems engineering. It emphasizes the extensive employment of modeling and simulation all through the life cycle of systems engineering efforts. The success of M&S based systems en...

The simulation-based analysis of business processes (BPs) is a key activity at various phases of the BP lifecycle, from the design phase, to predict the process behavior, down to the execution and improvement phases, to recover from possible performance downgrades and/or improve the process performance. The BP analysis is usually carried out taking...

The use of automated transformation approaches based on model-driven principles and standards promises to be a significant enabler of time, effort and cost savings in the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) field. This paper specifically addresses the distributed simulation (DS) domain, which allows to naturally cope with the ever growing complexity and...

Healthcare organizations are increasingly pushed to improve the quality of care service taking into account the increasing complexity in patient treatment and the continuous reduction of available resources. The adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) practices is thus becoming a key enabler for the improvement of healthcare processes (HPs)....

Simulation techniques are successfully applied to analyze and validate the performance of a business process (BP) since the early phases of its lifecycle, when the BP representation is commonly specified in BPMN. The BP simulation model is first to be built from the BPMN model, then implemented and finally executed to yield the performance indices...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is one of the prominent architectural paradigms recently adopted in the software development field. According to SOA principles, a distributed software system can be seen as an orchestration of software services deployed and executed onto networked hosts. The design-time analysis of SOA-based software systems dem...

The increasing complexity of modern systems makes their design, development and operation extremely challenging and therefore new Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) techniques, methods and tools are emerging, also to benefit from distributed simulation environments. In this context, one of the most mature tools is the IEEE 1516-2...

Although Systems Engineering (SE) is becoming progressively the leading discipline in the development of engineered systems, most of the functions performed by a system are “delivered” as services. This leads to what is referred to as Service Systems Engineering (SSE), which has its basis in the SE and, for specific types of services, represents th...

The adoption of systems with autonomous capabilities is becoming more and more relevant in many real-world operational scenarios, in which risky operations have to be carried out (e.g., a military battlefield or a search-and-rescue operation). In this context, innovative approaches should be introduced at design time to ensure that the system will a...

The use of process modeling combined with the use of simulation-based analysis provides a valuable way to analyze business processes (BPs) and to evaluate design alternatives before committing resources and effort. The simulation-based analysis of BPs usually addresses performance in terms of efficiency, i.e., focusing on time-related properties (e...

Concurrent engineering facilities (CEFs) are successfully used in the aeropsace sector to design systems and services that that fulfill the requirements. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) enables the effective (i.e., unambiguous) communication in the collaborative activities within concurrent engineering and service systems engineering facilit...

Simulation is a key technique for enabling business process analysts to predict the process behavior at design time. However, some issues limit the effectiveness of business process simulation (e.g., lack of simulation know how, costs and difficulties for gathering process data, semantic gap between the business process model and the simulation mod...

The use of simulation-based approaches for the analysis of business processes enables the design-time prediction of the process behavior and/or the operation-time process reconfiguration. However, the effectiveness of BP simulation is still limited for several reasons (e.g., lack of simulation know-how of BP analysts, simulation model parameters th...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a holistic approach for describing, analyzing, executing, managing, and improving large enterprise business processes. A business process can be seen as a flow of tasks that are orchestrated to accomplish well-defined goals such as goods production or services delivery. From an IT perspective, BPM is closely rel...

Simulation is one of the most relevant techniques that can be used in the business process management domain to effectively enact a continuous enhancement of business processes (BPs). However, the effectiveness of BP simulation is still limited for several reasons (e.g., lack of simulation know-how of BP analysts, simulation model parameters hard t...

Conceptual data modeling languages must be provided with temporal capabilities to support the data evolution throughout the execution of a conceptual process model. Asides from supporting the storage of historical data, temporal capabilities must also provide the means for verifying the consistency between the data temporal properties and the data...

The design of a complex system traditionally relies on a systems engineering process that makes use of text documents and engineering data in multiple formats.

The development of complex systems requires the use of quantitative analysis techniques to allow a designtime evaluation of the system behavior. In this context, distributed simulation (DS) techniques can be effectively introduced to assess whether or not the system satisfies the user requirements. Unfortunately, the development of a DS requires th...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a holistic approach for describing, analyzing, executing, managing, and improving large enterprise business processes. A business process can be seen as a flow of tasks that are orchestrated to accomplish well-defined goals such as goods production or services delivery. From an IT perspective, BPM is closely rel...

The EOS will provide ranging capabilities and will enable receiver manufacturers to begin to design and test their technological solutions for Galileo receivers and Galileo overlay services, such as search and rescue. Specifically, the MBSE approaches enable the designer to effectively trace the requirements and design alternatives on the descendin...

The intrinsic geographical distribution and the increasing complexity are two significant properties of modern business processes (BPs) that have not been fully addressed by existing simulation tools for BP analysis. Quantitative analysis of BPs is essential both at design time, to predict the BP quality of service (QoS), and at execution time, to...

Conference code: 95709, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: 6423066, doi: 10.1109/NAVITEC.2012.6423066, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Gianni, D.; European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands; email: Danielegianni@esa.int, References: Lisi, M., Galileo integrated approach to services provision...

Conference code: 95957, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: 6465106, CODEN: WSCPD, doi: 10.1109/WSC.2012.6465106, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Bocciarelli, P.; Dept. of Enterprise Engineering, Via del Politecnico, 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy, References: Antolin, R.G., De Lara, J., A model-driven a...

Conference code: 95957, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: 6465255, CODEN: WSCPD, doi: 10.1109/WSC.2012.6465255, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Gianni, D.; European Space Agency, Keplerlaan 1, N-2200 AG, Noordwijk, Netherlands, References: Balsamo, S., Di Marco, A., Inverardi, P., Simeoni, M.,...

Conference code: 94001, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: 6384147, doi: 10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384147, Language of Original Document: English, References: Hause, M., The Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM), enabling systems of systems on many levels Proceedings of the 4thAnnual IEEE Systems Conference, 2010;

The key to enable systems integration is that systems inter-communications are accurately and unambiguously specified. In line with ongoing Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) initiatives aiming to support systems engineering activities by means of formal and graphical models, we have introduced a logical model for the definition of Interface Co...

Conference code: 92954, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: 6269730, CODEN: PETEF, doi: 10.1109/WETICE.2012.110, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Gianni, D.; European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands; email: daniele.gianni@esa.int, References: D'Ambrogio, A., Gianni, D., Fuchs, J., Iazeolla, G...

Business processes (BPs) can be seen as flows of tasks that are orchestrated to accomplish well-defined goals. The ability to predict at design time the BP behavior assumes a strategic relevance, both to early assess whether or not the business goals are achieved and to gain a competitive advantage. This paper focuses on the performance prediction...

Conference code: 93322, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Bocciarelli, P.; Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; email: bociarelli@info.uniroma2.it, References: D'ambrogio, A., Iazeolla, G., Gianni, D., A software architecture t...

Conference code: 96662, Export Date: 27 November 2013, Source: Scopus, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Gianni, D.; Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome TorVergata, Rome, Italy, References: Fujimoto, R.M., (2000) Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems, , Wiley;, Sponsors: Society for Modeling...

The adoption of a P2P paradigm for implementing software applications based on service oriented architectures (SOA) is gaining momentum as a valid alternative to the classic client-server paradigm. In this context, service providers are strategically interested to describe and manage the quality of service (QoS) characteristics of offered services....

The simulation of modern systems may require an amount of computational resources that might not be available on a single host. Distributed simulation (DS) provides an effective way to scale up for the increased computational requirements. However, using existing DS environments remains the main obstacle to the wide adoption of DS systems, because...

The track aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from the modeling and simulation (M&S) and the collaborative environments communities. The workshop aims to gather innovative research contributions on the use of collaborative technologies to support M&S activities and on the use of M&S practices to support the design of collab...