· Conference on Systems Engineering Research Stevens Institute of Technology in cooperation with University of Southern California, presents the 3rd Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER)
· Conference Objective The primary conference objective is to provide practitioners and researchers in academia, industry, and government a common platform to present, discuss and influence Systems Engineering research with the intent to enhance Systems Engineering practice and education.

This year's conference will focus on secure and intelligent network centric systems; and agile deployment and development in the aerospace & defense, finance & banking, IT and telecommunications, and pharmaceutical & healthcare domains. We invite original research papers addressing the conception, design and architecting, development, modeling and simulating, production, operation and support of these systems; definition of metrics of performance, and improvement methods; assessment and mitigation of risks; definition of critical success factors, and best practices. The refereed research papers at the conference will be complemented with invited talks. Abstracts are invited in the following broad areas: · Secure and Intelligent Network Centric Systems · Agile Systems Engineering, Development, Integration, and Deployment · Robust and Sustainable System Designs and Architectures · Integrated Systems and Software Engineering and Development · Application of Systems Engineering to an Extended Enterprise System · Systems Engineering Methodologies, Practices, Methods, Tools, and Metrics · Collaborative Engineering: Environments and Organization There will be a track at the CSER-05 dedicated to papers and presentations emphasizing on-going research at the doctoral level in systems engineering and related areas.