Workshop: Investigation of the Theoretical Foundations in Systems Engineering; Frost, West Virginia; October 2015

系统工程在过去的40年里已经发展成为一种复杂系统工程的系统方法。 虽然系统工程的实践产生了许多成功的系统，但这种实践的理论尚未得到充分发展。这个研讨会的目的是提供系统工程的理论基础的调查。从长远来看，这将对系统工程的实践、教育和推广产生影响。在当前的实践中，广泛需要有受过良好教育的系统工程师，在解决与复杂工程系统相关的设计和生产问题时表现出灵活性和能力。该领域的理论基础的发现将在解决更好地设计工程系统和改进的系统工程和教育和推广计划相关的社会需求向前迈出了一步。本次研讨会的目的是调查和确定系统工程的理论基础，其中包括许多基本的推力领域，如风险管理或贸易空间探索。为了实现这一目标，研讨会的参与者将采取一种方法，解决文献中的理论空白，定义一个公理框架，建议可以从其他学科借鉴什么，调查重点领域之间的协同作用，并将理论基础与社会需求联系起来。如果成功的话，这次讲习班所采用的方法可以在今后用于和扩大，以解决其他推力领域的问题。这将允许创建严格的理论框架，随后可以用坚实的经验实地考察进行测试。

Systems engineering has evolved over the last forty years as a systematic approach towards the engineering of complex systems. While the practice of systems engineering has resulted in many successful systems, the theory underlying this practice has not yet been fully developed. This workshop aims to provide an investigation of the theoretical foundations of systems engineering. Over the long-term this will have implications for the practice, education, and outreach of systems engineering. In the current practice there is a wide spread need to have well educated systems engineers that exhibit flexibility and capability when addressing the design and production issues associated with complex engineered systems. The discovery of the theoretical foundations of the field will be a step forward in addressing societal needs related to better designed engineered systems and improved systems engineering and educational and outreach programs.The objective of this workshop is to investigate and define theoretical foundations for systems engineering with respect to one among many fundamental thrust areas such as risk management or trade-space exploration. To achieve this objective, the workshop participants will follow an approach that will address theoretical gaps in the literature, define an axiomatic framework, suggest what can be borrowed from other disciplines, investigate synergies among thrust areas and link the theoretical foundations to societal needs. If successful, the approach followed in this workshop can be used and augmented to address additional thrust areas in the future. This will allow for the creation of rigorous theoretical frameworks that can subsequently be tested with solid empirical fieldwork.