The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Delivering the most value for money when developing capabilities for a large system of systems is a complex issue. Several key factors affect the value of every particular piece of work, and those factors can change over time as the actual work effort evolves, the requirements change, and the value of desired capabilities independently rise and fall. Most scheduling approaches are predictive and based...
SoS are an ensemble of complex systems, which have the potential for an extraordinary amount of structural complexity, even temporarily, as a result of interconnections and couplings that can vary in strength. Because of this, SoS can be extremely vulnerable to very sudden catastrophic collapse as a result of small and insignificant partial functionality losses in one of the constituent systems. This...
New or improved technologies are frequently inserted into existing military capabilities (socio-technical systems of systems) in order to address emerging threats or to exploit latest scientific and technological developments. Urgent technology insertion projects, which are aimed at addressing critical capability gaps, pose a particular challenge for Defence organisations as any delays and/or suboptimal...
Tracking and identification of mobile objects is a challenging task, which is made even more challenging if the task is executed in a distributed manner by a System of Systems (SoS). However, the distributed SoS solution has many advantages when compared to centralized approaches. The computational load can be distributed, the fidelity of the tracking and identification results is potentially increased...
The process of modelling and simulation (M&S) plays a critical role in system of systems (SoS) engineering, given its ability to capture and visualize the dynamic nature embedded within SoS complexity. While there are multiple M&S paradigms, currently there is limited guidance for selecting the most appropriate one(s) based on the intention of the SoS modeller, which can manifest itself through...
This paper explores implications of Complex System Governance (CSG) for challenges faced in development of the System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) field. The paper is organized around four primary themes. First, the SoSE problem domain and issues in the field are examined. Second, an emerging role of CSG is developed in relationship to the SoSE problem domain. While this perspective of CSG is still...
This paper presents a framework for visualizing the research coverage of system of systems engineering (SOSE). The framework is based on prior similar work providing a framework for systems engineering research (SE) coverage. The framework presented for SOSE is sufficiently broad and developed to enable meaningful classification of SOSE research contributions. This paper compares the coverage of SOSE...
This exploratory work combines bibliometric methods and social network analysis to provide a knowledge map on the development of system of systems research field. For this purpose, the study mined the published articles related to system of systems until 2012 indexed by Web of Knowledge platform including SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, CPCI-S, and other scientific literature databases. The auctorial, institutional,...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.