Title : 
How to generate worst-case scenarios when testing already deployed systems against unexpected situations
         
        
            Author : 
Zapata, Francisco ; Pineda, Ricardo ; Ceberio, Martine
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Res. Inst. for Manuf. & Eng. Syst. RIMES, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Before a system of systems is deployed, it is tested - but it is tested against known operational mission, under several known operational scenarios. Once the system is deployed, new possible unexpected and/or uncertain operational scenarios emerge. It is desirable to develop methodologies to test the system against such scenarios. A possible methodology to test the system would be to generate the worst case scenario that we can think of - to understand, in principle, the behavior of the system. So, we face a question of generating such worst-case scenarios. In this paper, we provide some guidance on how to generate such worst-case scenarios.
         
        
            Keywords : 
system theory; systems engineering; operational mission; system of systems testing; unexpected situations; worst-case scenario generation; Computer aided software engineering; Linear programming; Optimization; Sensors; Standards; Systems engineering and theory; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Meeting (IFSA/NAFIPS), 2013 Joint
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Edmonton, AB
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IFSA-NAFIPS.2013.6608472