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STABILITY: Statistical Verification, Explanation Based Learning, and Interaction Testing for Complex Systems

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911QX-13-C-0067
Agency Tracking Number: O123-ER1-2112
Amount: $149,094.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD12-ER1
Solicitation Number: 2012.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2012
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-05-02
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-11-05
Small Business Information
211 N 1st St. Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN -
United States
DUNS: 103477993
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Daniel Bryce
 Senior Scientist
 (435) 213-5776
 dbryce@sift.net
Business Contact
 Harry Funk
Title: Vice President of Research and Dev.
Phone: (612) 339-7438
Email: hfunk@sift.net
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Complex systems are inherently difficult to analyze because they include multiple sub-systems that interact in stochastic and context-dependent ways. A particular challenge in designing such systems is to foresee the possible emergent interactions between the sub-systems. System repurposing makes the identification of interactions even more difficult, since the interactions vary along with the operational context. SIFT proposes to develop the STABILITY (Statistical Verification, Explanation Based Learning, and Interaction Testing for Complex Systems) system, a complex system design and analysis tool. STABILITY will support model based complex system development. STABILITY will combine human-guided workflow design, automated workflow analysis with statistical verification, succinct workflow analysis summarization with explanation based learning, and systematic workflow suite design with combinatorial interaction testing. STABILITY will provide a simple and effective framework in which to seek out, test, and understand interactions within complex systems.

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