SocWG:
We will begin the session by having a presentation of a project as an example of a funded research project on systems engineering that involves social systems. Evelyn Honoré-Livermore from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology will discuss her PhD project as part of the research project MASSIVE, funded by the Research Council of Norway. MASSIVE is based on the mission of developing a SoS for coastal and maritime surveillance with an operational control center involving different cultures and system technologies. One of these systems is a university built CubeSat. Many university CubeSat projects suffer from overrun schedule and cost budgets, and struggle with the balance and management of individual research objectives, and project mission and engineering objectives. Understanding why and how this happens as well as how to develop the operational center to fulfill the MASSIVE mission can benefit from a sociotechnical viewpoint.
NSWG:
The natural systems group has many activities before us (patterns, workshop, white paper / primer, models, and handbook). We will spend an hour exploring how best to focus our energies.