A new article co-authored by Abbas Ehsanfar and Paul Grogan appears online for Journal of Network and Systems Management. Auction-Based Algorithms for Routing and Task Scheduling in Federated Networks This paper studies and develops multiple auction-based algorithms for resource exchange among decentralized systems in federated networks with distributed computational resources. Decentralized resource owners and users…

A new article co-authored by Paul Grogan and Ambrosio Valencia-Romero appears online and open-access for Design Science. Strategic Risk Dominance in Collective Systems Design Engineered system architectures leveraging collaboration among multiple actors across organizational boundaries are envisioned to be more flexible, robust, or efficient than independent alternatives but also carry significant downside risks from new…

Alkim Avsar presented a paper on August 19, 2019 titled “The Effects of Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits on Collaborative Engineering Design Tasks with Negotiation ” at the 2019 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) Conference in Anaheim California. Abstract: Collaborative systems design is a human-centered…

Paul Grogan presented a paper on August 1, 2019 titled “Modeling Challenges for Earth Observing Systems of Systems” at the 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in Yokohama, Japan. Abstract: Earth observing systems are undergoing an architectural transformation to perform novel scientific campaigns by dynamically composing assets from government and commercial partners….

Two CoDe Lab members were recently recognized for outstanding efforts in the School of Systems and Enterprises. Henry Lee (M.E. Systems Engineering ’18) was recognized with the best master’s thesis award for his work titled “Measuring the Strategic Risk of Collaboration for Satellite Programs, A Case Study on the National Polar-orbiting Satellite System.” Jamey Laughland…

A new article co-authored by Abbas Ehsanfar and Paul Grogan appears online for the Journal of Network and Systems Management. Mechanism Design for Exchanging Resources in Federated Networks Abbas Ehsanfar and Paul T. Grogan

Happy Holidays from the Collective Design Lab. Celebrating the close of a successful 2018. Congratulations to the following graduating students: Abbas Ehsanfar, Ph.D. Systems Engineering Henry Lee, M.E. Systems Engineering Lindsay Portelli, M.S. Computer Science

A new open access article co-authored with Prof. Martin Törngren of KTH Royal Institute of Technology appears in a special issue of Designs on Challenges and Directions Forward for Dealing with the Complexity of Future Smart Cyber-Physical Systems. How to Deal with the Complexity of Future Cyber-Physical Systems? Martin Törngren and Paul T. Grogan Abstract:…

A new open access data article appears in Data in Brief to provide open access to a data set collected from a human designer experiment: Data on multi-actor parameter design tasks by engineering students with variable problem size, coupling, and team size Paul T. Grogan Abstract: The experiment studies the effect of technical and social…

Two papers were presented this week at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) in Quebec City, Canada. Toward a Model-based Experimental Approach to Assessing Collective Systems Design Processes A. Valencia Romero and P.T. Grogan in Design Theory Methodology (DTM) Abstract: This work presents a conceptual model…