GLRC11: Great Lakes Regional Conference 11 Crowne Plaza AiRE Bloomington, MN, United States, October 11-14, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.incose.org/glrc11/home |
Abstract registration deadline | June 10, 2017 |
Submission deadline | August 18, 2017 |
Call for Proposals
The Program Committee for the Eleventh Great Lakes Regional Conference (GLRC11) of the International Council on System Engineering (INCOSE) invites you to improve the theory and practice Systems Engineering by submitting a proposal for a
- presentation,
- panel discussion, or
- tutorial
on the theme: Superior Solutions for Today’s Complex Environments
Initiating the second decade of successful Systems Engineering (SE) conferences in the Great Lakes region, GLRC11 will feature keynote presentations from SE thought leaders, papers from SE practitioners and academia, panels on important SE topics, and world-class tutorials from SE experts.
Building upon last year’s conference, GLRC11 will again feature an INCOSE SE Professional Development Day (SE-PDD). This will be a virtual extension of the conference, with featured sessions broadcast to several satellite sites. Some accepted submittals may be invited to participate in the SE-PDD track.
Proposals for presentations of half-hour length are sought that will help improve systems engineering. Presentations may have accompanying papers which will be published as part of the conference proceedings
Proposals for panel discussions are sought on significant or controversial subjects in systems engineering, about which different points of view are held. Proposals for panel discussions should nominate knowledgeable, eloquent, polite members who can forcefully and succinctly advocate different positions on the panel topic.
Proposals for tutorials (half- or full-day) are sought that will teach systems engineering skills, tools, techniques, and knowledge. Proposals for tutorials should specify what will be gained by those attending.
Submission Guidelines
Submit a proposal using EasyChair by using the following directions:
- Login to Easy Chair using the 'author' role
- Click the 'New Submission' menu item
- Select the type of submission from the "Select a Track" page (General Technical Presentations, Systems Engineering Tutorials, or Panel Discussions)
- Follow the directions on the New Submission page by completing the Authors, Title, Abstract, and Keywords fields
- Include a signed version of the INCOSE IP Release form
- [Optional] Include a Submittal Paper in PDF or .DOC format to provide more detail.
Download a PDF of the INCOSE IP release form http://tinyurl.com/zxpyhtp.
The presentation will be submitted after proposals have been accepted.
Deadlines
Important Dates
5 April 2017 |
Call for Proposals (Papers, Panels, Tutorials) Opens |
10 June 2017 |
Deadline for Proposal Submittals to Easy Chair |
24 July 2017 |
Notification of Acceptance |
18 August 2017 |
Deadline for Initial Presentation Submittals to Easy Chair |
9 September 2017 |
Feedback on Initial Submittals |
29 September 2017 |
Deadline for Final Presentation Submittals to Easy Chair |
12-13 October 2017 |
GLRC11 Keynotes, Presenters, Panelists |
13 October 2017 |
GLRC11 SE-PDD Virtual Broadcasts to Satellite Sites |
14 October 2017 |
GLRC11 Tutorials and INCOSE CSEP/ASEP Exam |
Topics of Interest
GLRC11 Topics of Interest
Potential subjects for presentations, panel discussions, and tutorials:
- General systems engineering principles, tools, methods, and philosophy
- Practice of systems engineering in industries such as medical devices, healthcare, transportation, aerospace, building automation, traffic control, mass transit, or other domains
- Model-based engineering
- Systems architecture design, validation, and verification
- Lessons learned (what went wrong, and how it was rectified)
- Interaction/coordination with other engineering disciplines
- Systems engineering program management
- Security-robust systems engineering
- Formal methods for systems engineering
- Requirements extraction and management
- Maintaining consistency between levels of abstraction
- Systems' risk or hazard analyses
- System-level testing
- Systems' certification and standards
- Engineering total life cycle
- Unsolved problems in systems engineering
GLRC11 Proposal Submittals via
All proposals will be submitted through Easy Chair, and must include:
- Title
- Abstract which clearly and concisely describes the subject
- Presenter's or instructor’s name, affiliation, contact information, and brief biography
- Whether a paper to accompany the presentation will be submitted for inclusion in conference proceedings (note: draft papers are welcome, but not required, at the time of proposal)
- Additional presenters or instructors, if any
- For panels: why the topic is relevant; nominations for panel participants, summary of position statements
- For tutorials: Benefit for tutorial attendees; top-level learning objectives; tutorial outline; proposed duration (half- or full-day)
Abstracts have no word limit, but should be a concise paragraph, summarizing the proposed presentation/tutorial/discussion perspicuously to entice conference participants to attend and provide enough detail for evaluation.
Presenters must obtain all necessary authorizations and clearances from their organization(s), prior to the start of the conference. Presentations shall be unclassified and cleared for release to the public. At least one presenters/instructors and the panel chair and all panelists must register for the conference and pay the applicable registration fee. Presenters grant INCOSE the right to record, publish, and distribute their presentations, including audio, video, and slide-show content, unless expressly denied in writing. The INCOSE Author IP Release and INCOSE Tutorial IP Release forms are available via the GLRC website.
Contact
For questions and comments, please contact the GLRC11 Technical Program Chair:
Sean McCoy: sean.mccoy.csep@gmail.com.