About

INCOSE Russian chapter was formally approved by INCOSE Central since July of 2009, but actually work since March 2010. “Russian” is for Russian language (not for “Russian Federation”), thus our membership comes now from Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia, while occasionally have Russian-speaking members from USA.

 

Our main goal now is elaborating on state-of-the-art of systems engineering, working with challenges of systems engineering, providing reflection for our systems engineering methods. We have no as a main goal spreading SE methods to region engineering community but we understand that if we will be masters in this methods, our success tell to people more (and tell to more people) than our SE propaganda. We try to specialize on very hot discussion topics like MBSE (with semantic models, not simply UML/SysML), ontology-based life-cycle integration (ISO 15926), life-cycle modeling in frame of situational method engineering (ISO24744 and OMG SPEM 2.0), goal-oriented and model-oriented requirements engineering, etc.

 

At Russian chapter foundation there was many engineers and consultants affiliated with Russia nuclear powerplant industry (more than a half members), now it have representatives from many other industries thus nuclear powerplant specialists currently count about a third in Chapter memberbase. At the end of first half of 2010 INCOSE Russian chapter have 50 members.

 

President: Anatoly Levenchuk, TechInvestLab.ru

Vice-president: Vladimir Nuzhdin, PKF Energoatom

Treasurer: Vladimir Aleinik, Energopromanalitika

Secretary: Liudmila Golubkova, JSC August

 

Current activities

Regular Meetings

INCOSE Russian chapter have biweekly (every second and fourth Wednesday of month) regular meetings (Moscow members participate in person, non-Moscow member use Skype and dimdim.com for participation). It was 26 meetings to the end of May 2010. Many of presentations from this meetings available in video via internet (see http://community.livejournal.com/incose_ru/).

 

Conferences and Workshops

We plan to have 2 annual events on Systems Engineering Challenges, one of them national (Russian language) and one international (English and Russian with synchronous translation) levels.

 

National Systems Engineering Challenges Workshop provided in the end of March and situated in Bekasovo hotel near Moscow. There are 3 days of open discussions with occasional presentations. First of such a meeting in 2010 had a great success and attract members from several different cities and countries.

 

International Systems Engineering Challenges Workshop (RuSEC) will be annually in the end of September (223-23 of September in 2010 --  http://rise-russia.org/rusec2010) and we expect to see in Moscow INCOSE members from many other chapters. We suppose to discuss frontier of current (model-based, systems-of-systems, semantic etc.) systems engineering at this Workshop. Among organizers we have The Council Of Federation Committee for Industrial Policy (three members of our Chapter are member of Expert Council of this Committee).

 

From time to time affiliated with INCOSE Russian chapter organizations provide access for all Chapter members to their corporate-organized conferences. Many of our members attended international tutorials for foundations of systems engineering and ontology-based data integration that was organized by VNIIAES (presentations from this conferences available here: http://www.vniiaes.ru/uzhc/).

 

Research Topics

We have no intrachapter working groups with strict membership but Russian chapter maintain several research topics that interested to groups of our members. Each of those research topics was discussed many times at Regular Meetings, Tutorials and Workshops.

 

• Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering: where research and engineering gather.
• Russian language standardization in systems engineering: we already have Russian language versions of ISO 15288, ISO 42010, ISO 24774, ISO 24744, ISO 19760, ISO 24748, ISO 15926 and several other important standards.
• Situational method engineering and life-cycle modeling:  standards (ISO 24744, OMG SPEM etc.) and software (EPF Composer) for describing and modeling systems engineering activity and life cycles in terms of method fragments that equally pay attention for process, product and actors/producers.
• Ontology-based life-cycle data integration: ISO 15926 applications for data integration of CAD/PLM suites of different vendors (Bentley, Dassault Systemes, Intergraph, Siemens etc.).
• Dynamic systems modeling, lifecycle economic modeling: standards for model-based requirements engineering. Behavioral Modeling languages like Modelica and ModelicaML, Systems Dynamics.
• Goal-oriented requirements engineering: languages and standards for goal models (ITU Z.51 with GRL and UCM, i* etc.).