Engineering Intelligent Systems

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a journey, but one that is never taken alone. I'm grateful to many people who supported and encouraged the creation of this book. My colleagues at INCOSE, the International Council on Systems Engineering, listened patiently and contributed feedback on the ideas as I presented them, in early forms, in years of conference sessions, tutorials, and workshops. My work colleagues at IBM made my 17 years there productive and fascinating, as I was continuously both a student and a teacher of model‐based systems engineering methods. I learned a great deal from Tim Bohn, Dave Brown, Jim Densmore, Ben Amaba, Bruce Douglass, Grady Booch, and from the numerous aerospace and defense companies with whom I consulted over the years. Waldemar Karwowski, my dissertation advisor, encouraged much of the work in Chapter 8. Rick Steiner encouraged my experimental (read crazy, sometimes) ideas on how to expand the capabilities of system modeling in my doctoral research. Tod Newman has been a mentor and an inspiration since I joined Raytheon in 2018. Larry Kennedy of the Quality Management Institute brought me into a world of quality in systems – something I had always hoped was there but had never fully appreciated. My mother, now nearing 100 years of age, and still as bright and alert as ever, taught me to love math, science, and engineering. I remember her teaching me multiplication with a set of 100 1‐in. cube blocks – see how two rows of four make eight? Finally, ...