1st Edition

Realizing Complex Integrated Systems

Edited By Anthony P. Ambler, John W. Sheppard Copyright 2025
520 Pages 175 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

520 Pages 175 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

520 Pages 175 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The creation of complex integrated systems is, in itself, complex. It requires immense planning and a large team of people with diverse backgrounds based in dispersed geographical locations (and countries) supposedly working to a coordinated schedule and cost. The systems engineering task is not new, but recent scales most definitely are. The world is now capable of designing and manufacturing... Read more

Chapter 1 An Overview of Complex System Design

John W. Sheppard

PART 1 System Planning

Chapter 2 Requirements Types – Design and Test

Satyajit “Sat” Ketkar and Jason Smith

Chapter 3 Project Planning

Lila Carden

Chapter 4 System Decomposition

Satyajit “Sat” Ketkar and Jason Smith

Chapter 5 Systems Engineering Vee

Satyajit “Sat” Ketkar and Jason Smith

Chapter 6 Economics of Design and Test

Anthony P. Ambler

Chapter 7 Cyber‑Physical Systems

Wm. Arthur Conklin

Chapter 8 Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Matthew Hu, Margaret Kidd, Zheyong Bian, Kailai Wang, Harjot Singh Pooni, and Suhaib Kaissi

PART 2 System Design

Chapter 9 Chip-Level Design and Test

Mark McDermott

Chapter 10 Board‑Level Design and Test

Datong Liu, Dawei Pan, and Shengwei Meng

Chapter 11 Power Distribution

Michael Seavey

Chapter 12 Design Patterns and Reusability

Clemente Izurieta

Chapter 13 Test‑Driven Development

Madhusudan Srinivasan and Upulee Kanewala

PART 3 System Analysis

Chapter 14 Reliability

Christian K. Hansen

Chapter 15 Availability

Christian K. Hansen

Chapter 16 Maintainability

David R. Carey

Chapter 17 Performance Evaluation

Byeong Kil Lee

Chapter 18 Optimizing Complex Systems Operation

William Ross

PART 4 System Testing

Chapter 19 Types of Testing

Michael Seavey

Chapter 20 Software Test

Upulee Kanewala

Chapter 21 Error Handling

Stephyn G. W. Butcher

Chapter 22 Automated Test System Design

David R. Carey

Chapter 23 Interoperability and Design/Test Standards

Michael Seavey

PART 5 System Health

Chapter 24 Uncertainty and Uncertainty Propagation

Alessandro Ferrero

Chapter 25 Fault Detection, Localization, and Isolation

Jason Rupe

Chapter 26 Risk and Risk Analysis

Robert Taylor

Chapter 27 Risk‑Based Prognostics and Health Management

John W. Sheppard

Chapter 28 Structural Health Monitoring

Jamie Blanche, Ranjeetkumar Gupta, Daniel Mitchell, Sam Harper, and David Flynn

PART 6 System Security

Chapter 29 Risk Management Framework

Derek Reimanis

Chapter 30 Information Assurance, Vulnerability Analysis, and Remediation

William R. Simpson

Chapter 31 Cryptographic Systems

Keith M. Martin

Chapter 32 Software Security

John Marchesini and Sean Smith

PART 7 System Usage

Chapter 33 Human System Interaction – Interface Design

Laura Stanley and Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu

Chapter 34 Human and Privacy Rights

Razieh Nokhbeh Zaeem and K. Suzanne Barber

Chapter 35 Humanitarian Well‑Being

Kristen Intemann

Chapter 36 The Social Impacts of Complex Systems

Kristen Intemann

    

 

 

                                                                                                                

 

 

 

Biography

Anthony P. Ambler is a fellow of the IEEE, elected ‘For contributions to economics of testing complex digital devices and systems’. His research interests are in test economics, system test, and diagnosis. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He was appointed to a chair in Test Technology at Brunel University (UK) and then moved to the USA. He became chairman of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, then dean of Engineering & Computing at the University of South Carolina, and recently as dean of Technology at the University of Houston. In addition to his research work, he created the MS degree program in Engineering Management at UT Austin. He has acted as chair of the Organizing Committee of the European Design and Test Conference, general chair and program chair of IEEE International Test Conference and of IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. He has created a number of Workshops including on Test Economics, System Test and Diagnosis, and Production Test Automation.

John W. Sheppard is a Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Gianforte School of Computing at Montana State University. His research interests include fault diagnosis/prognosis of complex systems, model‑based and Bayesian reasoning, explainable and ethical artificial intelligence, and distributed population‑based algorithms. He is a fellow of the IEEE, elected 'For contributions to system‑level diagnosis and prognosis'. He received his BS in computer science from Southern Methodist University and his MS and PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. Before entering academia full‑time, he was a member of the industry for 20 years where his prior position was as a research fellow at ARINC Incorporated. He has been a long‑time leader in the IEEE Standards Association, chairing several working groups focused on publishing standards related to complex system test and diagnosis. Previously, he also served as the designated representative from the IEEE Computer Society to the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 20 on Test and Diagnosis for Electronic Systems.