The implementation of Digital Twins has become a common task for many industrial
companies to ensure a sufficient digitization of their products and maintain competitiveness …

Within the modeling and simulation community, simulation-based optimization has often
been successfully used to improve productivity and business processes. However, the …

Fueled by the opportunities for supporting many design and production activities and for
establishing new business models, Digital Twins have become a popular topic within …

This research applies a mission engineering approach with model‐based systems
engineering foundations to formalize a swarm unmanned system design methodology and …

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) communities are often asked to
test devices regarding their effects on underlying infrastructure. Usually, only one or two …

Many efforts from multiple academic and industrial disciplines have studied the notion of
context. The systems engineering and human systems integration fields, however, lack a …

The definition of complexity is contentious. The lack of a univocal definition for complexity is
leading to a cacophony of different views and lexicons, limiting the collective ability to …

I. Introduction hile the ongoing development of the digital thread represents a significant
improvement in the product lifecycle management, we believe that this emergent trend …

How should organizations approach the evaluation of system complexity at the early stages
of system design in order to inform decision making? Since system complexity can be …

This chapter attempts to set the research agenda on emergence in the medium and long
term and proposes a simulation experience approach (SEA) based on the mix of live‐virtual …