TY - GEN
T1 - Applications of systems thinking for resilience study in maritime transportation system of systems
AU - Mansouri, Mo
AU - Sauser, Brian
AU - Boardman Dr., John
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Maritime Transportation System (MTS) is a critical infrastructure system that enables economic activity through transferring goods between national and international destinations. This research is an effort to define and view MTS as a System of Systems (SoS) and apply Systems Thinking to understand, engineer, analyze, and govern it in a more effective and efficient way. We define Maritime Transportation System of Systems (MTSoS) as an integration of interdependent constituent systems and apply systemic tools such as Systemigrams to study critical properties of the system such as resilience and security through understanding its systemic interrelationships more effectively. A variety of systems engineering models have been applied to MTS. However, it is necessary to form a structured approach and develop new systemic toolsets that enables the stakeholders to view interdependencies and interconnections among the constituent systems of MTSoS.
AB - Maritime Transportation System (MTS) is a critical infrastructure system that enables economic activity through transferring goods between national and international destinations. This research is an effort to define and view MTS as a System of Systems (SoS) and apply Systems Thinking to understand, engineer, analyze, and govern it in a more effective and efficient way. We define Maritime Transportation System of Systems (MTSoS) as an integration of interdependent constituent systems and apply systemic tools such as Systemigrams to study critical properties of the system such as resilience and security through understanding its systemic interrelationships more effectively. A variety of systems engineering models have been applied to MTS. However, it is necessary to form a structured approach and develop new systemic toolsets that enables the stakeholders to view interdependencies and interconnections among the constituent systems of MTSoS.
KW - Maritime transportation system of systems
KW - Resilience
KW - Systemigrams
KW - Systems thinking
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U2 - 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815800
DO - 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2009.4815800
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650148852
SN - 9781424434633
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings
SP - 211
EP - 217
BT - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Systems Conference
Y2 - 23 March 2009 through 26 March 2009
ER -