Transdisciplinary Design – Process Expression and Actualization
Michael Sobolewski
Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio 45433
Polish Japanese Academy of IT, 02-008 Warsaw, Poland
sobol@sorcersoft.org
The transdisciplinary design process is an approach for breaking down a large-scale project into federated disciplines manageable at runtime in the network. Designers of complex multidisciplinary systems use the design process to solve a variety of problems, for example multidisciplinary and/or multidomain analysis and design optimization (MADO). MADO uses such a process to define the disciplines, fidelities of analyses and services (executable codes of tools, applications, and utilities) needed to manage exploration of emergent disciplines and governance of federated disciplines. At the Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center at AFRL/WPAFB, the MSTC Engineering platform has been developed based on the true service-oriented platform (SORCER) with the Service Modeling Language (SML) that treats multifidelities, morphers, disciplines, and governance of federated disciplines as the first-class citizens.
The transdisciplinary governance expressed in SML specifies the multiple disciplines to be realized as dynamic emergent multifidelity explorations actualized by service federations in the network. In this paper the metaprocess modeling architecture applicable to service-orientation is presented with five types of service-oriented processes. Its runtime environment is introduced with the focus on actualization of emergent service processes expressed in SML with the corresponding Service Virtual Machine (SVM).
BIO:
Michael Sobolewski received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the Principal Investigator of the SORCER Laboratory (SORCERsoft.org) focused on research in distributed and true service-oriented computing. Currently he is a World Class Scientist at the Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center, Aerospace Systems Directorate, AFRL/WPAFB and a Professor at the Polish Japanese Academy of IT, Warsaw, Poland. Before, he was a Professor of Computer Science at Texas Tech University (2002-2009) and a senior computer scientist at the GE Global Research Center (1994-2002). He has served as a visiting professor, lecturer and consultant around the world.