Scientific publications

In close collaboration with TNO-ESI, Vanderlande is initiating young professionals in the art of systems thinking. Together, the partners have developed a highly interactive hybrid training for global teams to create an intermediate level of system designers.

Software rejuvenation, also known as software restructuring or legacy removal, plays a critical role in preserving and enhancing the value of software assets within organizations. However, rejuvenation work can be difficult and tedious, and the benefit is not always clear. Therefore many individuals and organizations are reluctant to perform it.

Technical diversity of a complex system can be reduced using modularity and interface management. At the multi-disciplinary system level, this can be modelled using MBSE (Model-Based System Engineering) where typically the focus is on the system structure with the components and their interfaces. At the mono-disciplinary level this is further refined where each discipline uses its own tools and techniques to include more behavioural aspects.

During systems design, systems engineers would like to reason about systems feasibility as early in the process as possible. In this chapter, we present a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) method to support design decisions early in the process of systems development by quantitative information about important system qualities.

This technical report describes the learnings and the state of the Canvas project at the end of 2023, a collaboration between Canon Production Printing (CPP) and TNO-ESI. The topic addressed in this project is systems architecting for environmental sustainability (carbon footprint in particular) and circularity (ES&C in short).

The purpose of this document is to guide ESI research in Systems Architecting (SA) and Systems Engineering (SE), including collaborative studies. ESI aims to address the upcoming needs of the high-tech equipment industry. For this purpose, industry needs and consequential research outlooks have been elaborated in this document as a vehicle to support coordination and alignment of ESI research with the high-tech equipment industry.

An execution trace is a model of a single system behavior. Execution traces occur everywhere in the system’s lifecycle as they can typically be produced by executable models, by prototypes of (sub)systems, and by the system itself during its operation. An execution trace can be visualized and analyzed with various techniques, providing insight into the dynamic behavior, performance, bottlenecks, etc.

Sustainability embodies the concept of responsible management and care of the planet's resources and the well-being of both current and future generations. In line with the European Green Deal (EGD), the high-tech industry wants to be climate-neutral by 2050 and is actively engaged in exploring methods to integrate sustainability into its product development processes.