Open Systems Standards Research Articles

How Missile Engineering is Taking Product Line Engineering to the Extreme at Raytheon

AbstractThis paper describes a new approach to designing and building missiles by Raytheon Missile and Defense Systems. Key aspects of the approach include (1) modular common components connected through identified standards, (2) modular open systems approaches and standards based interfaces, (3) Feature‐based Product Line Engineering (FbPLE) practices for identifying commonality and managing variation, and (4) implementing digital transformation through digital engineering capabilities to begin a missile's digital twin. Much more ambitious than simply reusing existing component designs from previously built missiles, this approach involves automatic generation, exploration, and pruning of an automatically generated trade space of possible missile designs that satisfy a given set of requirements. The goal is to radically lower development and production costs by rapidly settling on a viable design that can be taken to design validation, then complete design and production, all in a digital ecosystem. The paper focuses on the FbPLE aspect of the engineering approach and shows how its technology is used to create and manage the trade space, and then create a digital twin of a chosen design.

낙동강 하굿둑의 배수문 증설에 따른 통합운영시스템의 구축 사례에 대한 연구

Due to the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, Nakdong River Estuary Barrage’s designed flood quantity has been largely increased, and this has caused to construct several drainage gates at the right side of Eulsukdo island to secure the safety of downstream river area. For successful functioning of Nakdong River Estuary Barrage, such as flood control, disaster prevention, and the securing of sufficient water capacity, drainage gates at the both sides of island have to operate systematically and reliably. To manage this under restricted personnel and resources, we have implemented the IOS (Integrated Operation System) by integrating previous facilities and resources via information and communication technologies. The IOS has been designed to have higher availability and fault tolerance to function continuously even with the partial system’s failure under the emergency situation like flood. Operators can use the system easily and acknowledge alarms of facilities through its IWS (Integrated Warning System) earlier. Preparing for Integrated Water Resources Management and Smart Water Grid, the architecture of IOS conformed to open system standards which will be helpful to link with the other systems easily.

ROSA Rotorcraft Open Systems Avionics

Commercial standards adopted from the volume-driven electronics markets provide improved processing capacities over those widely used military standards and at reduced cost. Desired future capabilities and advanced functions, such as RPA, require the throughput, bandwidth, and memory provided by commercial processors and data buses. The primary issues needing resolution prior to implementation are related to operations in military rotorcraft environment, reliability, redundancy management, and fault and battle damage tolerance. In addition, some required network components presently do not exist in the preferred form factors. The ROSA project is providing effective laboratory demonstrations of COTS products and open systems specifications and standards to rotorcraft avionics. Preliminary cost estimates forecast large potential savings and create a compelling business case for follow-on research and transition to production systems. In addition, the project is developing a Rotorcraft Technical Architecture with the participation of many industry partners and will promote the resulting documentation as background materials for the JTA-A.

A systemic approach in modeling and analysis of interactions in virtual enterprises

Advances in computer networking technology and open system standards are making the creation and management of virtual enterprises feasible. A virtual enterprise is a temporary consortium of autonomous, diverse, and possibly geographically dispersed organizations that pool their resources to meet short-term objectives and exploit fast changing market trends. For a virtual enterprise to succeed, its processes must be automated, and its startup costs must be minimized.In this paper we develop a formal framework for modeling and reasoning about interactions in a virtual enterprise using the systemic methodology PSM (Problem Structuring Methodology). Furthermore, the framework we design and describe, it will be capable of justifying the future behavior of Virtual Enterprises and of supporting validated processes for the examination of their well working.

Improving design dependability by exploiting an open model-based specification

In an open system standards environment, a formal specification can be shared by all of its implementations, which results in the sharing of development cost. This paper presents a specification-based adaptive test case generation (SBATCG) method for generating validation test cases and a specification-based adaptive consistency check generation (SBACCG) method for generating on-line consistency checks for implementations developed from a model-based specification. The SBATCG (SBACCG) method first derives test cases (consistency checks) through rigorous exploration of a model-based specification, adapts the test cases (consistency checks) to the program structure of a particular implementation, and then produces test cases (consistency checks) that are particularly suitable for the implementation. Testing does not guarantee a program's freedom from faults. The results of the fault-injection experiment show that the SBACCG method can complement the SBATCG method.

Architecture of data-acquisition systems for high-energy physics experiments

In this review we discuss the evolution of the basic principles of the architecture of data-acquisition systems for experimental setups used in high-energy physics and relativistic nuclear physics during the last 25 years. The effect of the latest advances in computational techniques and communications, such as microprocessors and open bus system standards, on improving data recording and acquisition is discussed. The evolution of data-acquisition systems is illustrated by examples of developments occurring at the leading physics centers and at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics, JINR, Dubna. The trends in the future development of data-acquisition systems are described for the research programs at the LHCcollider, CERN, and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Challenges in Designing Open Systems

ABSTRACTOpen systems offer a building block approach to development that follows sound software engineering principles: well‐defined interfaces, information hiding, weak coupling, and layers of abstraction. Open system standards define the basic system building blocks, providing a foundation for reuse, interoperability, and evolution.But there are new challenges to address with this approach: where do standards belong in an architecture? Which standards are the right ones to use? Are there commercial products that implement the standards? This paper provides some insights based on experiences in developing a standards‐based architecture for migrating a large, complex legacy system to an open system.

A METHODOLOGY FOR CONSOLIDATING SYSTEMS USING OPEN ARCHITECTURES

AbstractThe migration of multiple legacy systems to a single system having an open architecture is increasingly required as the Government modernizes existing capabilities. This paper presents a methodology, based upon open system standards and commercial off the shelf (COTS) products, for performing such migrations. The methodology addresses requirements, legacy system engineering analyses, architecture synthesis, component selection, migration plan development, cost, schedule, and migration plan implementation. The approach is presented in the context of the Theater Battle Management Core System project.

Supporting collaborative applications in a heterogeneous mobile environment

This paper describes the implementation and use of a platform designed to support collaborative multimedia applications in a mobile environment. The platform provides a programming interface compatible with emerging open systems standards, and includes services for processing multimedia information. In addition, the platform provides feedback to applications and users on the state of their communications infrastructure — an important requirement in mobile environments. The services provided by the platform have been used to develop a collaborative multimedia application designed to support a specific class of mobile worker, i.e. field engineers. The design decisions taken in our implementation of both platform and application are evaluated, and our experiences are presented.

Integration of a European image processing component with an American HIS: the advantage of open standards

This paper describes the integration of a European Image Processing System with an existing American Hospital Information System. Both systems were built independently (with no knowledge of each other), but on open systems standards. The easy integration of these systems demonstrates the major benefit of open standards-based software design.

The unsettled world of testing in open systems standards

The unsettled world of testing in open systems standards

Application of Open Systems Standards to DoD Avionics

ABSTRACT The DoD is transitioning to open systems standards as a means to reduce cost. Key aspects of this thrust are: (1) the development and cataloging of a preferred set of standards which can be uniformly interpreted and applied across DoD programs; (2) the ability to develop target independent software which can be affordably retargeted to rapidly evolving commercially based hardware; and (3) a method for transitioning emerging standards and products to programs with minimum risk.

Applications thrive on open systems standards

article Free Access Share on Applications thrive on open systems standards Authors: Eric J. Strand Management Assistance Corporation of America Management Assistance Corporation of AmericaView Profile , Rajiv P. Mehta HeterConn, Inc. HeterConn, Inc.View Profile , Raju Jairam Open Systems Division, MBI Corporation Open Systems Division, MBI CorporationView Profile Authors Info & Claims StandardViewVolume 2Issue 3Sept. 1994 pp 148–154https://doi.org/10.1145/202749.202757Published:01 September 1994Publication History 3citation337DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads337Last 12 Months8Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Emerging Standards For Water Utility Computerization

With the continuing proliferation of computer hardware and software, many utilities are facing the problem of system incompatibility and an inability to share and exchange information among systems, resulting in much duplication of effort. To avoid this in the future, open system architecture and common industry standards are being developed. A utility communication architecture for electric utilities, based on open system standards, is currently being modified for use by water utilities.

The Integration of Design and Manufacture ‐A Quantum Leap

New product “time to market” in the information technology (IT) industry is increasingly critical to a company′s competitiveness. Early product release into the marketplace will ensure higher profit margins, quicker returns on investment and therefore greater opportunity for a company to retain its market leadership in that product area. ICL Manufacturing Division is in the process of implementing information systems which support concurrent engineering concepts and facilitate automated processing of information from design to manufacturing. These integrated systems are based on distributed relational database technologies and open system standards. Provides an overview of the facilities and topology of the implemented environments within the engineering planning areas.

Has the OSI opportunity been fully realised?

This paper suggests that the enormous effort that has been put into the development of today's Open Systems Standards has not been really cost effective in providing a coherent set of implementable, efficient standards. It argues that the rapid developments in technology over the past decade have not been matched by the appearance of corresponding “Open Standards”, due largely to the long-winded procedures of the present standardisation processes. The paper then briefly reviews the evolution of present Open Systems Interconnection standards and considers the motivation for trying to achieve such standards. Next, it outlines some possible future developments, which could stem from the impact of emerging technology on distributed multimedia systems, and tries to identify what kinds of associated new standards may soon be required. Finally, it proposes some new approaches to the creation of user-oriented Open Standards that might be more effective than the present approaches.

IEEE's Posix: making progress

The status of the interface standards within the IEEE Portable Operating System Interface (Posix) environment (the x in Posix denotes the Unix operating system origin of this effort) is discussed. The open system standards within the Posix activity are expected to resolve the portability and interoperability problems and to open the door to a major new industry of standard software components, or modules. From these components, users will be able to build and modify larger systems to suit their evolving needs, eliminating the need to produce several versions of an application program to accommodate operating systems with different file system structures and network interfaces. Details of the Posix Open Systems Environment (OSE) application program interfaces are examined to show how standards can be used in constructing portable software.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Open system standards: A US government perspective

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is supporting the development of standards for Open Systems Environments (OSE) to improve the portability of software, data and skills, and the interoperability of different manufacturers' hardware, software and communications systems. Working in cooperation with users and vendors, NIST has developed an Applications Portability Profile (APP) that provides an initial set of specifications for US government agencies to use in planning for the migration to OSE. The continued development of voluntary industry standards for OSE will depend upon the cooperative efforts of users, vendors, consortia, and national and international standards organizations.

IEE Computing & Control Division: Chairman's address: Co-operative computing and control

The pace of innovation in the information technologies continues unabated, and massive investment in the digital infrastructure required for distributed information systems is proceeding steadily. The paper summarises some of the basic technology trends of the past five years and describes some of the consequent systems trends, including workstation networks, open system standards, digital communications and computer supported co-operative work. A key characteristic of most of these developments is the need for systems that support co-operation between people, between people and machines, between machines, and between organisations. Some examples of these are discussed including X400 electronic mail, CCITT SS7 separate channel signalling and electronic conferencing. Some of the newer disciplines required to support an engineering approach to building very large distributed information systems are then described, including protocol engineering, distributed systems architecture, object-oriented design and system control and management. The paper concludes by reviewing some of the issues these technologies raise for the engineering professional and the role of the IEE in the 1990s

Using open systems interconnection standards as the base for a comprehensive distributed system

This paper takes a pragmatic, real-world view of the role that Open System standards can take as the base for a comprehensive, enterprise-wide, distributed system architecture. Recognizing that OSI standards will at any time fall short of providing a complete solution, the paper describes strategies and tactics for using OSI, proprietary, and commodity products together, while managing the evolution of all of these in a “graceful” manner. The paper then summarizes the basic architectural approach adopted by Bull. Bull has been fully committed to OSI for more than 10 years as part of an integrated OSI, proprietary, and commodity solution.