Course Description

Course Name:	Introduction to Adaptive Engineering: With applications in Robotics and Medical Devices
Time & Date:	6:30 - 9:00 PM Tuesdays, April 6, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18
Location:	Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Rd, Woburn, MA
Speaker:	Vasile Coman, XCLSoft

Overview of course

Did you know that the number one reason for cost overrun, project delays, and project cancellations are the change in requirements? Learn in this course how business organizations and consumers are driving changes into those requirements and how to design/build systems immune to those changes. The focus of the course is on a framework that can be used in practice, as each new introduced concept will be portrayed by numerous examples from over two decades of experience. The main learned skill is how to design/build complex systems and software that can be reused close to 90% regardless of newly added requirements. The new framework is built around a new concept called ‘dynamically-stable operations’ pattern.

Target audience

Any engineer that designs and develops complex systems operating in a business or consumer environment that changes frequently. Professionals working as system architects, project lead, and technical managers will learn practical skills that they can apply immediately on the job.

Benefits/goals of attending

This is the only course that proposes a clear, practical framework on how to design, build, deploy, and maintain traditional and information-centric systems that need to operate in a changing environment. An engineer can apply the new knowledge immediately in two ways:

it introduces methods to analyze orders of magnitude faster how a business organization or a consumer changes their operations
it introduces new design approaches that leads to an adaptive system

Reference material: Extensive course notes will be provided as part of the course registration fee

OUTLINE

1. How Businesses and Consumers adapts to their environment

A high-level review of existing
A model of adaptability inspired from nature
Businesses and Consumers, linked together in the adaptive economic cycle
The four fundamental types of business models are driven by their need to change

2. Controlled Hierarchy and Resource Lifecycle

Controlled Hierarchy, the foundational element for learning and adaptability
Resource Lifecycle, the foundational element for operations
Information density, or how to measure the complexity of logic embedded in a message
A generic way to process a message that leads to adaptability
The ‘dynamically-stable operations’ pattern

3. Engineer traditional systems for change

Why the traditional engineering approach doesn’t work efficiently when environment changes
What are the drivers that makes a traditional system adaptive
How to design systems based on how fast they need to be adapted to new requirements
Link the need to recycle, the operational model, and the energy consumption to the pace of change
Practical examples of adaptive systems designed using the new principles

4. Engineer information-centric systems for change

A review of current approach to software architecture and design
What makes an information-centric adaptive
Introducing engineering approach to the design of information-centric systems
Design you information-centric system based on information density, and the environment need to change
Practical examples of information-centric systems designed and built for change

5. Proposed metric for adaptability of systems and software

A proposed metric that measures the adaptability of a system
Practical examples

6. Main Benefits for building adaptive systems

Review of processes by which businesses and consumers learn and adapt their operations
Adaptive systems are designed at lower cost - systems designed for incremental change have their main elements reusable and are cheaper to upgrade
Adaptive systems are designed faster - systems designed for change have new requirements added at a faster pace
Adaptive systems have a lower impact on our environment - systems designed for change can be easier to service and have their parts recycled

Speaker’s Bio:

Mr Coman’s expertise comes from an extensive practice in three main fields: close to eight years in engineering (aircraft engines design and manufacturing, machinery design and manufacturing, industrial equipment maintenance), close to four years as management consultant ( with focus on business frameworks), and software developer (architect, design, write code, deploy, and maintain various software applications for over fifteen years). Overall professional experience is 25 years.

Presentation at an MIT conference on Complex Systems
Contributor to a collection of leading thoughts “In Search of BPM Excellence” with a chapter: “The Dynamically Stable Enterprise”
Two-part article published on InfoQ : “Beyond SOA:A New Enterprise Architecture Framework for Dynamic Business Applications”

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, March 30, 2010

FEES

Payment received by March 26: IEEE Members $250

Payment received by March 26: Non-members $290

Payment received after March 26: IEEE Members $290

Payment received after March 26: Non-members $330