【Title】Architecting Complex Adaptive Systems
【Speaker】Professor Cihan H. Dagli
【Host】Professor Simin Huang
【Time】13:30-14:30, May 31st (Thursday), 2018
【Venue】Room N412, Shunde Building
 
【Abstract】Multi-faceted systems of the future will entail complex logic and reasoning with many levels of reasoning in intricate arrangement organized by web of connections and demonstrating self-driven adaptability. They are designed for autonomy and exhibiting emergent behavior that can be visualized. These systems will impact manufacturing industry, defense, healthcare, energy, transportation, emergency response, agriculture and society overall. Our quest continues to handle complexities, to design and operate these systems. The challenge in Complex Adaptive Systems design is to create an organized complexity that will allow a system to achieve its goals.These complex adaptive systems have dynamically changing meta-architectures. Finding an optimal architecture for these systems is a multi-criteria decision making problem often involving many objectives in the order of 20 or more. This creates “Pareto Breakdown” which prevents ordinary multi-objective optimization approaches from effectively searching for an optimal solution; saturating the decision maker with large set of solutions that may not be representative for a compromise architecture selection from the solution space. Possible approaches that can be adapted in overcoming this difficulty in architecting complex adaptive systems will be discussed.
 
【Short Bio】Dr. Dagli is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and also a Professor Computer and Electrical Engineering. He is the founder of Missouri S&T’s Systems Engineering Graduate Program and the director of the Smart Engineering Systems Lab (SESL). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University and a Ph.D. Applied Operations Research in Large Scale Systems Design and Operation from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, where from 1976 to 1979 he was a British Council Fellow. Dr. Dagli is a fellow of International Council of Systems Engineering INCOSE 2008 and Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers IISE 2009.Dr. Dagli joined Missouri S&T in 1988. His research interests are in systems engineering and systems architecting, cyber physical systems, deep learning, machine learning   and computational intelligence. Dr. Dagli has been a PI, co-PI, or director of 56 research projects and grants from federal, state, industrial funding agencies. Dr. Dagli has published over 439 research publications, including 75 archival journal articles and edited (or co-edited) 31 books. His research publications have been cited on Google Scholar 3,351 times, with an h-index of 27 and i-index of 90. He was the dissertation advisor of 26 Engineering Management,   one Computer Science and 7 Systems Engineering PhD students who received their degrees from S&T.