Recherche
On Wednesday 9 July 2025 at 2.00 pm, Alexandre DISDIER, a doctoral student in the FlexTech Chair, will defend his thesis on the Contribution to the integration of contextual information in the design models of complex socio-technical systems in order to obtain his doctorate from the University of Paris Saclay.
Location
Physics: Amphithéâtre Peugeot, Bouygues building - CentraleSupélec, 3 rue Joliot Curie - 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
Remote access: click on this link (Meeting ID: 388 402 824 402 - Secret code: Qc6Yq6Sa)
Abstract
The complexity of socio-technical systems results in the emergence of properties and functions that are difficult to anticipate during the design phase. The principles of human-systems integration (or HSI) advocate the use of new methods to acquire as much knowledge as possible about the system of interest as early as possible in the life cycle in order to detect these emerging properties and be able to adapt the system architecture accordingly.
The existence of these properties is partly due to the difficulty of identifying upstream the characteristic and relevant elements of the system's operational context, which may differ significantly from the system's design, test and integration environment. The notion of context remains poorly defined in the literature, and the tools, methods and models traditionally used in systems engineering do not capture and model this contextual information at a sufficient level of granularity.
The aim of our research is to provide a definition, properties and ontological and methodological elements for the notion of context in design engineering. Our work is undertaken through the case study of air traffic control operations, and perspectives are given as to the interest that our results can bring to the adaptation of these operations to a context of virtualisation of control within remote centres. The results specific to this case study serve as a basis for reflection on their generalisation to all complex socio-technical systems.
Jury
Ms Marija JANKOVIC, Professor | CentraleSupelec | Thesis supervisor |
Mr Guy André BOY, Professor | ESTIA | Thesis co-supervisor |
Mr Tom MCDERMOTT, Professor | Stevens Institute of Technology | Rapporteur |
Mr Philippe PALANQUE, University Professor | University of Toulouse | Rapporteur |
Bernard YANNOU, University Professor Éric BONJOUR, University Professor Ms Flore VALLET, Senior Lecturer (HDR) | University of Paris Saclay University of Lorraine University of Paris Saclay | Examiner Examiner Examiner |
Mr Dimitri MASSON, Lecturer and researcher Mrs Anne-Laure JOUSSELME, HDR Research Engineer | ESTIA-Research CS Group | Supervisor Co-supervisor |
Keywords
Human-Systems Integration, Complex Sociotechnical Systems, Contextual Modelling, Air Traffic Control
Host laboratories
ESTIA-Research and Industrial Engineering Laboratory (LGI)
Doctoral school
Interfaces of the University of Paris Saclay
Acknowledgements
This research work was carried out as part of a CIFRE thesis funded by the ANRT in partnership with the CS Group as part of the Flextech Chair
