Special Issue: Analysis and Design of Sociotechnical Systems
Modern engineered systems are increasingly connected, with complex interactions among social and technical aspects, both during the design process and after fielding. For example, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, sharing economy platforms, and more broadly, emerging systems enabled by AI and the internet of things, cross traditional cyber and physical, machine and human, boundaries with their performance largely determined by how they interact with society. While traditional engineering design has focused on designing an optimal technical artifact, there is an increasing recognition that social and organizational aspects of how designers collaborate and create, and how systems co-evolve with the human and built environments through use, are equally important drivers of value. Additionally the rise of new sources of data and increased availability thereof creates many opportunities to extend design research into the socio-technical realm. For example, collecting and learning from new sources of data, understanding these complex new phenomena, incorporating human individual and group behavior into design, and developing models and tools to govern them. Responding to that need, this special issue brings together fundamental scientific contributions across those three areas. Examples of representative topics include:
Besides papers that directly address design issues of sociotechnical systems, modeling and analysis papers with clear design motivation and prospect will also be considered.
Publication Target Dates
Submission Deadline: Extended to Feb 29, 2020
Initial review completed by: Extended to April 30, 2020
Publication: Extended to December 2020
Papers received after Feb. 29, 2020 may still be considered for the special issue, if time and space permits.
Guest Editors Babak Heydari, Northeastern University, heydari@northeastern.edu || Zoe Szajnfarber, The George Washington University zszajnfa@gwu.edu || Jitesh Panchal, Purdue University, panchal@purdue.edu || Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Imperial College London, m.cardin@imperial.ac.uk || Katja Holtta-Otto, Aalto University, katja.holtta-otto@aalto.fi || Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State, gkremer@iastate.edu
- Fundamental theories of sociotechnical system design
- Integrating human behavior (individual and group) into the design process
- Applications of social and economic networks in engineering design
- Risk and uncertainties in sociotechnical systems
- Empirical methods and data collection to study complex sociotechncial system design
- Emerging sociotechnical systems in transportation, sharing economy, manufacturing & human-AI systems.
- Quantifying non-functional & human-centric performance measures (resilience, evolvability, flexibility etc.)
- Co-evolution of social and technical systems
- Modeling the interaction of systems and organization architecture
- Leveraging distributed innovation
- Design and governance of multi-stakeholder systems
Besides papers that directly address design issues of sociotechnical systems, modeling and analysis papers with clear design motivation and prospect will also be considered.
Publication Target Dates
Submission Deadline: Extended to Feb 29, 2020
Initial review completed by: Extended to April 30, 2020
Publication: Extended to December 2020
Papers received after Feb. 29, 2020 may still be considered for the special issue, if time and space permits.
Guest Editors Babak Heydari, Northeastern University, heydari@northeastern.edu || Zoe Szajnfarber, The George Washington University zszajnfa@gwu.edu || Jitesh Panchal, Purdue University, panchal@purdue.edu || Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Imperial College London, m.cardin@imperial.ac.uk || Katja Holtta-Otto, Aalto University, katja.holtta-otto@aalto.fi || Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State, gkremer@iastate.edu