INCOSE International Workshop
http://www.incose.org/iw2018/home
January 20, 2018, Jacksonville, FL
Presenter details are in subpages, links at left and bottom.
Recordings and Presentations are on dropbox, send a note to nswg-info@incose.org
Chair: Curt McNamara — Co-chair: Randy Anway
https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg nswg-info@incose.org
The NSWG will once again be offering several sessions on topics of interest.
Our schedule includes:
Saturday, January 20th 10:30-noon EST:
Overview of the circular economy
· Tools and techniques for the Circular Economy as described in British Standard BS 8001:2017
· Infrastructure Ecology: ecological network analysis of material and energy flow in human systems (Marc Weissburg, GATech)
· The Who and What of Communicating Biom* (Norbert Hoeller, Sustainable Innovation Network)
· The Hero’s Journey To The Circular Economy: An Innovative Methodology To Guide Businesses In The Transition To A Circular Economy (Shari Welsh, Circular Design Solutions)
Saturday, January 20th 1pm-3pm EST:
Cross-scale analytics
This session will host an exploratory discussion on units of analysis for natural systems and interdisciplinary applications of such models.
We plan to cover 4 distinct scales: microbiological; human; urban; and terrestrial.
Moderated by Randall Anway, AIA
Speakers and topics:
Dr. Kate Adamala (U Minnesota): “Biological Control Systems”
Dr. Fred Wulczyn (U Chicago): “Data Analytics for Human Services”
Elizabeth Christoforetti (Supernormal, Cambridge MA): "Big Data for Small Places: Utilizing Emerging Quantitative Information for Improved Urban Quality."
Dr. Caryl Johnson (Introspective Systems, LLC, Portland ME): "Managing Dynamic Complexity, A Biomimetic Perspective”
Saturday, January 20th 3;30pm-5pm EST:
Joint system with NASA Virtual Interchange for Natural Systems (VINE)
· Overview of VINE and the systemology cluster. Jacqueline Nagel, James Madison University; Vikram Shyam NASA
· Survey of Biomimicry tools for use in PeTaL (Periodic Table of Life) Collen Unsworth, U Akron
· An Ontology for Biomimetics. Julian Vincent
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INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG)