Advancing Enterprise Systems Engineering : A Focus on Process Integration and Theoretical Grounding.

在过去的几十年里，企业保持竞争力所需的系统越来越难以设计，因为需要考虑将它们整合到更广泛的背景下(一个包罗万象的系统)，这就产生了对系统工程的需求。因此，系统工程显示了传统系统工程技术的局限性，特别是当这种系统是企业系统时。 建议的研究项目是系统工程领域的专门研究项目。它的主要目标是促进关于系统工程系统的现有知识(即新的理论和模型)，特别是企业系统工程(ESE)，以及为有效和高效地实践后者而设计的新技术。 目前，香港社会正面对四项基本挑战： ·由于对ESE含义的定义相互矛盾而造成的混乱。 ·缺乏进行环境安全评估的有效和经过测试的工程技术。 ·跨多个系统级别的工程流程集成-从ESE到软件工程。 ·全面和适当地将系统思维的进步应用于环境经济。 这一研究计划的短期目标将侧重于澄清ESE的含义，并通过转移系统思维领域的现有知识为后者开发新技术。 该研究计划的中期目标将集中于(在理论和实践上)整合软件工程、系统工程和ESE的生命周期管理过程，以建立重要接触点和问题区域的地图。 该研究计划的长期目标将集中在支持工具工程师进行ESE，以及整合跨软件工程、系统工程和企业系统工程的工程过程 这项研究计划将为加拿大的组织提供新的工程技术，以帮助它们保持竞争力。此外，许多组织正在寻找ESE领域的高素质人才：金融和投资公司、政府机构、制造和零售公司等。然而，由于加拿大缺乏这样的培训计划，很少有组织能够获得这样的专业知识，而且他们很难为其持续发展的ESE计划配备人员。 在国际一级，一些公认的机构已经建立了ESE研究和培训方案。这项研究计划将有助于促进加拿大在ESE领域的存在，这一领域到目前为止，加拿大几乎还没有。

Over the last decades, the systems required by enterprises to stay competitive have shown themselves to be increasingly more difficult to engineer as the need to account for their integration into a wider context (an encompassing system) has created the demand for system of systems engineering. As such, the engineering of systems of systems has shown the limits of traditional systems engineering technologies, particularly when such systems are enterprise systems. The proposed research program is specialized in the area of system of systems engineering. Its main objectives are to advance current knowledge (i.e. new theories and models) with regards to system of systems engineering, particularly enterprise systems engineering (ESE), as well as the design of new technologies for practicing effectively and efficiently the latter. Presently, the community is faced with four fundamental challenges: • Confusion because of competing definitions with regards to the meaning of ESE. • Scarcity of effective and tested engineering technologies for conducting ESE. • Integration of engineering process across multiple system levels – from ESE to software engineering. • Comprehensive and proper application of advances in systems thinking to ESE. The short-term objectives of this research program will focus on clarifying the meaning of ESE as well as develop novel technologies for the latter by transferring current knowledge from the field of systems thinking. The mid-terms objectives of this research program will focus on integrating (in theory and in practice) the lifecycle management processes of software engineering, systems engineering and ESE in order to establish a map of important touch-points and problem areas. The long-terms objectives of this research program will focus on the engineer of support tools for the conduct of ESE as well as for integrating engineering processes across software engineering, systems engineering and enterprise systems engineering This research program will provide new engineering technologies to Canadian organizations to help them remain competitive. In addition, many organizations are in search of highly qualified people in the field of ESE: financial and investment companies, governmental agencies, manufacturing and retail companies, and others. However, very few organizations have access to such specialized expertise and they struggle to staff their continuous development of ESE initiative, because of the lack of such training programs in Canada. At the international level, a number of recognized institutions have established ESE research and training programs. This research program will contribute to fostering a Canadian presence in the field of ESE, a field in which, to this day, Canada is practically absent.