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Summary Sentence: Cognitive Systems Seminar Series: Chris Paredis
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Chris ParedisAbstract: The recent development of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is forcing many organizations to re-examine their engineering processes, methods and tools, and to ask the question: How can we best take advantage of this new MBSE paradigm? Rather than incrementally replacing existing processes with model-based equivalents, there is an opportunity to affect more fundamental change. The fact that we express information and knowledge more formally is likely to lead to entirely new processes, methods, and tools that make extensive use of computer-supported reasoning, analysis and optimization. I would like to use this presentation as a starting point for a conversation on the role cognitive systems can play in support of systems engineering and design. I will start by sharing my perspectives on systems engineering and design, and articulate the different types of cognitive tasks involved. Based on my understanding of cognitive systems, I will then try to identify which of these tasks provide good opportunities for computational support. At that point, the presentation will need to turn into a discussion because, although I have a fairly good understanding of systems engineering and design, I will need to rely on the audience to provide a similar depth of understanding of cognitive systems. The ultimate goal is to identify opportunities for synergy and potential research collaboration.
Bio: Dr. Chris Paredis is Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and in the H.M. Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. He is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow and Director of the Model-Based System Engineering Center. He holds graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Recently, he served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where he was responsible for programs related to systems engineering and design: Engineering and Systems Design (ESD), Systems Science (SYS), and Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS). Dr. Paredis' research focuses on Model-Based Systems Engineering, combining aspects of decision theory, information technology, simulation, and systems theory to support the design of complex engineered systems. He is past Chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering division, and has served as Conference Chair for the 2013 Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER'13) and the 2007 Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE'07). Dr. Paredis has served as Associate Editor for the SAE Journal of Commercial Vehicles and the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. He currently serves as co-Editor of the ASME book series, "Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research." He received the 2007 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the 2007 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and the 2011 ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award.
