CASE 2013 Planning Committee Telecon – 2/4/2013
Convened about 12:02 PM; adjourned at 12:49 PM EST
On the call (as best as I could tell):
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Allen Arrington
David Dress
Nancy Andersen
Alison Lauderbach
Jim Blohowiak
Carmela Brittingham
Mat French
Laura McGill
Satoshi Nagano
Jimmie McEver
Brett Hoffstadt
Reece Lumsden
Bryan Herdlick
Agenda:
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Track Status
Monday Events
Staff Update
Around the horn….
Monday CASE Events:
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We started a good discussion last week about the Monday afternoon event (still deciding if this is a
presentation session, poster session, workshop, so for now it is an event).
o Mat indicated that the initial thought was an informal paper session to provide a status report
on G-135 development; probably will just focus on one session.
o Opportunity to cast a wider net by bringing INCOSE. Jimmie is involved with the development of
the INCOSE complex systems primer.
o Allen asked Mat and Jimmie to discuss options for the Monday afternoon event; we also roped
Laura into this to get the AIAA Standards Executive Council perspective. Allen has the action to
coordinate a telecon for later this week (if possible).
Monday morning workshop. Per discussion Between Wilson and Allen, the Monday morning event
will be called the “Executive Workshop” rather than a roundtable. This is what the Management TC
called the event last year and we want folks to realize that active participation is expected.
o Allen will contact Tom Irvine about getting a Management TC POC to participate more closely
with the overall CASE planning.
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Track Updates and Status
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Track 3: Nancy provided the status report:
o Working on confirming the session chairs and key panelists/speakers.
o Once we get confirmation on the session chairs we need to schedule a regular meeting for Track
3 planning.
Track 2: Update from David:
o Three sessions in the works (titles have not been set, but here are the themes):
 Moving testing earlier in the design process; Mark is the lead.
 More emphasis on V&V earlier in the design process; Alison is the chair and Jim is co-chair.
 Issues with computation and ground test moving earlier in the process; Steve is the lead.
o The idea is to start at the high level perspective then move into more detail.
o The team is having weekly meetings to work the details.
o Allen was a little concerned about having the entire track sort of zeroed in on one theme; an
important and timely issue, but perhaps more diversity in the track. Merely a suggestion.
o Bryan indicated that ITEA has been working this topic since the 90s, but that there were still
opportunities to cover new material related to large scale systems, systems-of-systems and
complex systems.
 Bryan will capture these thoughts in an email to David.
 Allen suggested that Bryan should be included in the Track 2 planning discussions.
Track 1: Laura provided the following update:
o Still looking for a track co-chair. If anyone has any suggestions, please let Laura know. Allen will
ask Wilson during their Thursday call.
o Session themes:
 Lessons learned; what we did wrong (focus on failures and what we can learn).
 Model-Based Engineering.
 Managing Complexity; possible session chair is Dan DeLaurentis from Purdue.
 Engineering Resilient Systems
o Nancy brought up human factors and the meeting we had a week or so ago with David Fuller to
figure out how/where to insert this material into the program. Seems that human factors will
not be a stand-along session but elements could fit into themes presented for Tracks 1 and 3
(more tactical in Track1 and strategic in Track 3).
o Suggested that a session could be developed on “integration of the human into the system”
perhaps in Track 1 or 2.
 Human-centric systems.
o Addition related comment on Track 1 content:
 Capabilities-based testing; requirements have been clearly articulated (tie to Track 2).
 Emphasis at INCOSE on Model-Based Engineering; another opportunity to bring INCOSE into
CASE.
 Jimmie brought up the term “anti-fragile”….just Google it, you’ll get a better understanding
that my poor notes will provide. Short story is a system that is beyond resilient and actually
gets stronger in a chaotic environment.
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Interestingly, this came up in a conversation between Jim Vasatka (Aviation Forum
Chair) and Allen last week; it is a theme that Jim is working in the overall forum and
would like to have woven into CASE and the technical tracks.
 Bio-inspired design methodology.
Allen reminded the Track Chairs to use the program details tabs in the planning spreadsheet to start
layout out the plans for their tracks and sessions (session chairs, moderators, panelists, speakers,
etc. with the timing for the sessions).
AIAA Staff Notes: Carmela provided the following update:
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There was an Aviation Forum steering committee meeting this morning.
o Working on the event preview; will need to include CASE input. The plan is to have the draft
ready next week. Will use existing CASE materials for the draft, then we can adjust as needed.
Technical program abstracts are due on 2/28.
Two targeted emails on CASE have been sent so far.
Carmela will coordinate a meeting with her, Craig, Jim, Dave Maroney and Allen to discuss the
overall forum program layout. Jim has made a few changes at the forum level, but they should not
impact CASE. However, there are still questions about how CASE will be listed in the program due
do Scholar One limitations).
Around the horn….
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Reece asked for clarification on the number of sessions for each track. Here’s the deal: There are 6
session blocks available for CASE. Block 1 (first block on Tuesday morning) and Block 6 (last block on
Wednesday afternoon) will be used for the CASE opening and wrap-up sessions, respectively. That
leaves 4 blocks for the tracks to use. The present thinking is that there will be one shared session
between all three tracks (Workforce issues; Track 3 is the lead). This leaves three session blocks for
the parallel session for the three Tracks. Note that there can be other shared sessions between
tracks, but at present only the Workforce session has been identified.
Meeting Schedule:
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Next telecon is set for 2/11; same bat time, same bat station….
The 2/18 telecon will be canceled due to the Federal Holiday.
We will continue with the weekly telecons mostly likely through March.
Action Item List
AI
Date
Assigned
Action
Responsible
Party
Due date
001
10/22/12
Provide introductory
information (and a photo if
you like) to Allen
Everyone
10/31/12
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Status
Working
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Date
Assigned
Action
Responsible
Party
Due date
002
10/22/12
Assemble and distribute
intro package
Allen
11/1/12
003
10/22/12
Recruit co-chairs for each
Track.
Track Chairs
11/15/12
004
10/22/12
Start identifying session
topics, session chairs/cochairs, speakers and
panelists to build the
program for each track
Planning
Committee
11/15/12
Working
005
10/22/12
Identify topics for tutorials.
Planning
Committee
11/15/12
Working
011
11/5/2012
11/26/2012
Planning
Committee
11/12/2012
11/30/2012
Working
012
11/26/2012
Brett
12/10/2012
Working
013
12/3/2012
Jimmie
12/10/2012
Working
014
12/3/2012
Allen
12/3/2012
Email inquiry sent
to Karen (12/3)
015
12/17/2012
Outlook meeting notice for
the CASE meeting at ASM
Allen
12/17/2012
Completed
016
1/14/2013
Update program layout on
SharePoint
Allen
1/18/2013
Completed
017
1/14/2013
Follow-up with Dominic
about the CFP
Karen
1/16/2013
Completed
018
1/14/2013
Set up telecon to discuss
human factors session.
Nancy
1/18/2013
Completed
019
1/14/2013
Karen
1/18/2013
020
2/4/2013
Allen
2/4/2013
Working
021
2/4/2013
Allen
2/4/2013
Working
022
2/4/2013
Bryan
2/9/2013
Completed
Review CFP and forward
comments to Allen or
Dominic
Summary of ideas for
overview/framework of
complexity topics
Summary of potential
session topics from 12/3
meeting
Check on telecon capability
for the ASM meeting
Check on Twitter hashtags
for Aviation and CASE
Set up telecon to discuss
the Monday afternoon
event (with Mat, Jimmie,
Laura and Allen)
Contact Tom Irvine about a
Management TC POC for
the Executive Workshop.
Email to Dress, et al on
Track 2 comments
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Status
Initial release in on
the SP site.
1. Working
2. Melanson
3. Andersen
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Date
Assigned
023
2/4/2013
024
2/4/2013
Action
Set up telecon to discuss
Aviation 2013 program
layout (with Jim, Dave,
Allen, Craig and Carmela
Add track/session details to
the planning spreadsheets
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Responsible
Party
Due date
Carmela
2/9/2013
Track Chairs
On-going
Status
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