9th Aerospace Systems, Adaptive/Adaptable Systems and AI Special Session

Submission Deadline: November 22, 2026.

Both long and short papers are solicited: authors’ instructions are here.

Aerospace products are often complex and pose significant challenges to systems engineering, in particular safety issues. This special session welcomes discussions on systems engineering issues related to aerospace domain.  Authors may submit theoretical or practical use case papers in the aerospace area or other areas where the solutions can also be used by aerospace applications.

Observing the recent progresses in adaptive/adaptable systems and AI, topics that are also related with aerospace systems, this session also calls papers in these areas. 

Topics in scope with aerospace systems include but are not limited to:

  • Aerospace Systems Development Issues

  • Requirements and Architecture

  • Environmental and Environmental Health Issues

  • Aerospace System Safety, PHM

  • Physics Modeling, Simulation and Analysis

  • Systems Integration & Verification

  • Autonomous Aerospace Systems

  • Sensors, Robotic Systems

  • Aerospace Integration & Application

  • Aerospace System Human Interfaces

  • Cybersecurity

  • Aerospace Communication Systems

 Topics in scope with adaptive/adaptable systems and AI include but are not limited to:

  • Adaptive and Adaptable Systems Engineering

  • Engineering with Uncertain Requirements

  • Switching Cost Estimation

  • Resilient Systems

  • System Adaptability

  • (AI Assisted) Adaptive System Safety and Reliability

  • Modeling of Adaptability in Complex Systems

  • Adaptable Software & System Interface

  • Adaptability Heuristics

  • Adaptable Architectures

  • Model-Base Adaptable System Design

  • Trade-Off Study Theory, Method and Tools

  • Risk Management with Adaptation

  • Adaptive Control

  • Agent Systems Modeling and Simulations

  • Adaptive System Complexity

  • Adaptability in INCOSE SE Vision 2035

  • System Perspectives of AI

  • AI-Driven Tools for Systems

  • AI-Driven Analytics for Systems

  • AI-Driven Diagnostics for Systems

  • Intelligent Cybersecurity Technologies

  • AI Systems Ethics 

Additional Resources/FAQ:

Information on related topics includes but is not limited to:

1.   IEEE/INCOSE: Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge on System Adaptability

2.   A List of References collected by INCOSE System Adaptability Workgroup

3.   Complex Adaptive Systems Conference 2025 (at MIT)

Special Session Co-Chairs