Notes on Contributors

Nathan L. Adams is a Research Engineer II at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and has over 12 years of experience in systems engineering, embedded systems development, and analysis and simulation support tool development. His current area of focus involves systems engineering, integration, and test and evaluation of embedded aircraft systems. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Mr. Adams worked for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corporation where he developed and integrated real-time simulation systems in support of various simulation laboratories. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic State University and a Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mikhail Auguston is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Dr. Auguston’s research interests encompass programming language design and implementation, real-time and reactive software testing and debugging automation and safety assessment tools, software and system architecture formal specification and validation, and visual programming languages. He has more than 40 years of experience in these areas and has published more than 120 papers in refereed journals, conferences, and workshop proceedings. He was PI and Co-PI in projects funded by NSF, NASA, U.S. Army Research Office, U.S. Naval Research Office, U.S. Missile Defense Agency, USMC Technology Center, TARDEC, SPAWAR/SYSCOM, and U.S. Army/Monterey TRAC.

William Dale Blair is a Principal Research Engineer with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and is a Fellow there. He recently completed a three year assignment as the Technical Director for the C2BMC Knowledge Center of the Missile Defense Agency. Since joining GTRI in 1997, Dr. Blair has led a multiorganizational team in the development of multiplatform–multisensor–multitarget benchmarks to both air defense and ballistic missile defense. His projects at GTRI focus mostly on the modeling and simulation and algorithm assessment associated with the sensor netting for the C2BMC. Dr. Blair's research is reported in over 200 articles that include 38 refereed journals. He served as the Editor for Radar Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES) 1996-99 and Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for IEEE T-AES from 1999 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the 2001 IEEE Nathanson Award for Outstanding Young Radar Engineer. He is Coeditor and coauthor of the book, Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advances and Applications III, and the author of chapter 19 “Radar Tracking Algorithms” and coauthor of chapter 18 “Radar Measurements” of the new edition of Principles of Modern Radar. He has served on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS) for 1998–2003, 2005–2010, and 2012–2014.

John Boardman has been an engineer, consultant, researcher, teacher, and public speaker. He has held academic appointments in the United Kingdom and the United States. Most recently he was a Distinguished Service Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises where he taught graduate classes on systems thinking and enterprise architecting. His specialty subjects have covered electrical engineering, computer engineering, software, and systems engineering. He has coauthored two books, with Brian Sauser, on systems thinking. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He now concentrates on writing and has recently completed Part I of a trilogy: “Memories live longer than dreams.”

Agostino G. Bruzzone is a Full Professor at DIME University of Genoa, Director of M&S Net (International Network involving 34 centers), Director of the MISS McLeod Institute of Simulation Science—Genoa Center (28 centers distributed worldwide), Founder and President of the Liophant Simulation, Member of the Simulation team, Vice President and Member of the Board of MIMOS (Movimento Italiano di Simulazione), and Member of the NATO MSG. He works on innovative Modeling & Simulation, AI techniques, application of Neural Networks, and Gas. He is Member of several International Technical and Organization Committees (i.e., AI Application of IASTED, AI Conference, ESS, AMS) and General Coordinator of Scientific Initiatives (i.e., I3M General Chair). He teaches "M&S" for the DIMS Ph.D. Program (Doctorship in Integrated Mathematical M&S). He is Director of the Master Program in Industrial Plants for the University of Genoa. He has a new appointment as Project Leader M&S at NATO STO CMRE—Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation.

Nurcin Celik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Miami. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona with magna cum laude. Her research interests are in the areas of integrated modeling and decision making for large-scale, complex, and dynamic systems focusing on electric utility resource planning and dynamic load dispatching in distributed power grids and microgrids. She is the recipient of several awards including 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Award, 2011 WSC Best Paper Award, 2011 IAMOT (International Association for Management of Technology) Best Research Project Award, 2010 University of Miami Provost Award, 2009 IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Best Graduate Research Award, and 2007 Diversity in Science and Engineering Award from Women in Science and Engineering Program.

William Crossley is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. His teaching and research interests are in design optimization for aerospace systems and for system of system design problems. He initiated the “System of Systems” signature area in the College of Engineering in 2004 and is involved in the continuing development of systems and system of systems efforts at Purdue University. He earned a BSE (Aerospace) from the University of Michigan, then participated in the Arizona State University Industrial Fellows Program through which he worked in Advanced Concept Development at McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems in Mesa, AZ, while earning his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the chair of the Aircraft Design Technical Committee, an Executive Committee Member for the Council of Engineering Systems Universities, a Member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, a Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and a Member of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.

Daniel DeLaurentis is an Associate Professor in Purdue’s School of Aeronautics & Astronautics and the Director of Purdue's Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace (CISA), which is home to 20 faculty affiliates, three research staff, and numerous dedicated graduate students. His primary research interests are in the areas of problem formulation, modeling and robust system design, and control methods for aerospace systems and system of systems. This includes agent-based modeling, network theory, optimization, aerospace vehicle modeling, missile defense battle management architecting, and air transportation network analysis. Dr. DeLaurentis is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as Chairman of the AIAA’s Air Transportation Systems (ATS) Technical Committee from 2008 to 2010. He was Co-Chair of the System of Systems Technical Committee in the IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Community and Associated Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal for several years.

Margery J. Doyle is a Research Consultant Cognitive Systems Research Scientist and Engineer with L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training at the Air Force Research Lab 711 HPW/RHA Warfighter Readiness Research Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Margery leads the Not-So-Grand-Challenge to support integration and use of cognitive- and behavior-based models, agents, and architectures in adaptive Live Virtual Constructive training environments. She earned her M.A. in Experimental Psychology with a certificate in Cognitive Psychology from the University of West Florida in 2007. While attending UWF, Margery made significant sustaining contributions to the field of Augmented Cognition through working on a seminal DARPA challenge entitled AUGCOG. In addition, Margery completed work toward a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science. Recently she coedited a special edition of Cognitive Systems Research focusing on stigmergic systems that display properties of emergence.

Tommer R. Ender is a Senior Research Engineer at the Electronic Systems Laboratory of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and serves as Chief of the Systems Technology & Analysis Division. His primary area of research includes development of collaborative systems engineering tools and methods as applied to complex system of systems, concerned with supporting decision making through a holistic treatment of various problems. His research focuses on the application of Model Based Systems Engineering, advanced design methods, uncertainty analysis, and multidisciplinary design optimization to...