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Kristin M Giammarco

Associate Professor
Systems Engineering

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NPS Experience
  • 2012 - current: Associate Professor
  • 2009 - 2012: Lecturer
Other Experience
  • 2008 - 2009 Chief Engineer, SEAMS Division, CERDEC S&TCD, Ft. Monmouth, NJ
  • 2001 - 2008 Systems Engineer, CERDEC, Ft. Monmouth, NJ
  • 2000 - 2001 Communications Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, Eatontown, NJ
Research Interests
Application of formal methods to architecture model assessment
Quantitative analysis of architecture models for decision support
Teaching Interests
System Architecting and Design
System Integration and Development
Formal Methods for System Architecting
Leadership in Product Development

Awards

  • 2023 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, NPS
  • 2022 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, NPS
  • 2021 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, NPS
  • 2021 - Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence , NPS
  • 2020 - Teaching and Learning Commons Special Act Award, NPS
  • 2020 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2017 - Best Transition in Systems Engineering Research, The MITRE Corp.
  • 2014 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2014 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2011 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2011 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2007 - Outstanding Academic Achievement, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2007 - Wayne E. Meyer Award for Excellence in Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2007 - Systems Analysis Award, Army Materiel Command (AMC)

Boards, Memberships, & Certifications

Professional Memberships
  • 2024 Object Management Group Systems Modeling Community (Formal Methods Working Group)
  • 2017 - 2020 Board of Directors, International Society for Systems Pathology
  • 2005 International Council on Systems Engineering

Scholarly Work

Publications
  • Book Chapters
  • Giammarco, K. M, (2024). System Behavior Specification Verification and Validation (V&V) Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Giammarco, K. M, (2022). Exposing and Controlling Emergent Behaviors Using Models with Human Reasoning. CRC Press.
  • Giammarco, K. M., & Auguston, M, (2018). Behavior modeling approach for the early verification and validation of system of systems emergent behaviors. Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Quartuccio, J., & Giammarco, K. M, (2018). A model-based approach to investigate emergent behaviors in systems of systems. Boca Raton, FL USA: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Conference Proceedings
  • Rambikur, S. A., Giammarco, K. M., & O'Halloran, B. M, (2017). Increasing System Failure Analysis Effectiveness Through Architecture Modeling.
  • Giles, K. B., & Giammarco, K. M, (2017). Mission-based Architecture for Swarm Composability (MASC)
  • Journal Articles
  • Herrington, D., Beery, P. T., & Giammarco, K. M, (2022). Assessing Design Repository Search Effectiveness. Systems, (10(5), 178).
  • O'Halloran, B. M., Papakonstantinou, N., Giammarco, K. M., & Van Bossuyt, D, (2021). A Graph Theory Approach to Functional Failure Propagation in Early Complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPSs) Journal of Systems Engineering, 2(24), Pages 100-121.
  • Beery, P. T., Byram, T., Gatley, E., Giammarco, K. M., Williams, R. D., & Paulo, E. P, (2020). An Operational Effectiveness Analysis of Legacy and Future Mine Countermeasures Systems using Discrete Event Simulation. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2(17), 191-204.
  • Giammarco, K. M., & Whitcomb, C. A, (2019). System Architecture Practices to Facilitate Department of Defense Technology Transfer. Journal of Technology Transfer.
  • Giles, K. B., & Giammarco, K. M, (2019). A Mission-based Architecture for Swarm Unmanned Systems. Journal of Systems Engineering.
  • Giammarco, K. M., & Troncale, L, (2018). Modeling Isomorphic Systems Processes Using Monterey Phoenix. Systems, 2(6), 18.
  • Giammarco, K. M., Hunt, S., & Whitcomb, C. A, (2018). Using the Design Reference Mission for Framing Naval Ship Design Problems. Naval Engineers Journal, 1(180), 53—63.
  • Technical Reports
  • Giammarco, K. M., & Allen, B. D, (2018). Methodologies and patterns for model centric systems engineering.