fmdtools Publication List

The list below is a chronological accounting of relevant publications from the fmdtools team:

• Irshad, L., & Hulse, D. (2025). Towards Early Design Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Situation Awareness. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067705

• Mbaye, S., Hulse, D. E., Irshad, L., Walsh, H. S., & Andrade, S. R. (2025). Towards Computational Functional Hazard Assessment (CFHA): A Gap Analysis and Concept for Emerging Aviation Systems. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1411). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-1411

• Hulse, D. E., Mbaye, S., & Davies, M. D. (2025). Determining Optimal Asset Location for Rapid and Efficient Wildfire Suppression: A Simulation-Based Approach. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 0451). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-0451

• Yu, H., Hulse, D., Irshad, I. (2024) Understanding AI Risks in Transportation – AI Assurance for Transportation Whitepaper Series.

• Agogino, A., Brat, G., He, Y., Hulse, D., Lipkis, R., Pressburger, T., Irshad, L., … & Schumann, J. (2024). Recommendations on Evidence and Process for Certification of Learning-enabled Components in Aerospace Systems.

• Hulse, D., Mbaye, S., & Irshad, L. (2024, August). Defining A Modelling Language to Support Functional Hazard Assessment. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE) (No. IDETC/CIE2024-143549). https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-143549

• Hulse, D. (2024, July). Foundational Concepts in Simulation-Based Resilience Analysis and Design. In IEEE Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology-IEEE Space Computing Conference.

• Hulse, D., & Irshad, L. (2023). Synthetic fault mode generation for resilience analysis and failure mechanism discovery. Journal of Mechanical Design, 145(3), 031707. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056320

• Irshad, L., & Hulse, D. (2023, August). Modeling Distributed Situation Awareness in Resilience-Based Design of Complex Engineered Systems. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 87295, p. V002T02A050). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2023-116689

• Irshad, L., & Hulse, D. (2023). On the Use of Resilience Models as Digital Twins for Operational Support and In-time Decision Making. In AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum (p. 3559). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3559

• Girshfeld, I., Hulse, D., & Irshad, L. (2023). Uncovering Hazards Using a Multi-Objective Optimization to Explore the Faulty State-Space. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 2578). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2578

• Hulse, D., & Hoyle, C. (2022). Understanding Resilience Optimization Architectures: Alignment and Coupling in Multilevel Decomposition Strategies. Journal of Mechanical Design, 144(11), 111704. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054993

• Hulse, D., & Irshad, L. (2022, September). Using Degradation Modeling to Identify Fragile Operational Conditions in Human-and Component-driven Resilience Assessment. In 2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) (pp. 1-10). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC55683.2022.9925877

• Andrade, S., Hulse, D., Irshad, L., & Walsh, H. S. (2022). Supporting Hazard Analysis for Wildfire Response Using fmdtools and MIKA.

• Irshad, L., & Hulse, D. (2022). Can Resilience Assessments Inform Early Design Human Factors Decision-making?. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(29), 61-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.10.232

• Irshad, L., & Hulse, D. (2022, August). Resilience Modeling in Complex Engineered Systems With Human-Machine Interactions. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 86212, p. V002T02A024). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2022-89531

• Hulse, D, & Irshad, L. Synthetic Fault Mode Generation for Resilience Analysis and Failure Mechanism Discovery. Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 3A: 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC). St. Louis, Missouri, USA. August 14–17, 2022. V03AT03A040. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2022-90072

• Andrade, S. R., & Hulse, D. E. (2022). Evaluation and improvement of system-of-systems resilience in a simulation of wildfire emergency response. IEEE Systems Journal, 17(2), 1877-1888. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2022.3169125

• Hulse, D., Zhang, H., & Hoyle, C. (2021, August). Understanding Resilience Optimization Architectures With an Optimization Problem Repository. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 85383, p. V03AT03A039). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2021-70985

• Hulse, D., Walsh, H., Dong, A., Hoyle, C., Tumer, I., Kulkarni, C., & Goebel, K. (2021). fmdtools: A fault propagation toolkit for resilience assessment in early design. International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.36001/ijphm.2021.v12i3.2954

• Andrade, S. R., Spirakis, E., Hulse, D. E., Walsh, H. S., & Davies, M. D. (2021). The system modeling and analysis of resiliency in stereo (SMARt-stereo). In AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM (p. 3015). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3015

• Hulse, D. E. (2020). A computational framework for resilience-informed design.

• Hulse, D. E., Andrade, S. R., Spirakis, E., Walsh, H. S., & Davies, M. D. (2020). SMARt-STEReO: Preliminary Model Description.

• Hulse, D., Hoyle, C., Tumer, I. Y., Goebel, K., & Kulkarni, C. (2020, August). Temporal fault injection considerations in resilience quantification. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 84003, p. V11AT11A040). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2020-22154