2007-03-23: Pradigm Shift: Convergence and Tipping Point?

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1. rhusar's SystemOfSystems Bookmarks on Delicious
   For Erin, Literature on SoS
2. Programmatic Interoperability
   Interoperability has traditionally been considered a property of operational systems, where systems are able to exchange information in some agreed-upon fashion. However, other aspects of interoperability are often overlooked. This report introduces one of those aspects—the concept of programmatic interoperability, which is the application of principles of interoperability to the acquisition management of systems. It shows how programmatic interoperability contributes to fielding interoperable capabilities and relates this aspect to current trends such as network-centric operations. The report also discusses the orchestration of decisions and activities that are applicable to acquisition in a system-of-systems environment. Finally, the report suggests several research topics.
3. SoS Navigator 2.0: A Context-Based Approach to System-of-Systems Challenges
   The SoS Navigator approach provides leaders participating in complex systems of systems with (1) novel insights into critical aspects of the demand and supply sides of their situation and (2) criteria on which to decide whether their systems-of-systems context requires the adoption and sustainment of a different business model than ones that are typical today. This technical note introduces the fundamental concepts, processes, and techniques of the evolving SoS Navigator approach. It also summarizes case studies that illustrate the use of SoS Navigator processes and tools in healthcare, military, and civilian government systems-of-systems contexts.
4. System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability
   Large software systems are now constructed as groups of interoperating systems (as systems of systems) developed by different but sometimes related teams and made to interoperate through various forms of interfaces. Unfortunately, we have trouble building them. Software engineering practices have not kept pace, and the problem will only get worse as the community begins to build Internet-scale systems of systems like the Global Information Grid. This note introduces the System-of-Systems Navigator (SoS Navigator), the collection and codification of essential practices for building large-scale systems of systems. which provides tools and techniques to characterize organizational, technical, and operational enablers and barriers to success in a system of systems; identify improvement strategies; and pilot and institutionalize these strategies.
5. Maier: Architecting Principles for Systems-of-Systems
   While there is growing recognition of the importance of “Systems-of-systems,” there is little agreement on just what they are or on by what principles they should be constructed. This paper proposes a taxonomy of these super-systems and exhibits a basic set of architecting principles to assist in their design. While several heuristics are particularly applicable to systems-of-systems, the key insight is the central role played by communication standards. The enabling architecture of systems-of-systems is non-physical, it is set of standards that allow meaningful communication among the components. This is illustrated through existing and proposed systems.
6. Topics in Interoperability: Infrastructure Replacement in a System of Systems
   
7. Tien: Services: A System's Perspective
   a service system is an integrated system, it is, in essence, a system-of-systems (SoS) which objectives are to enhance its efficiency (leading to greater interdependency), effectiveness (leading to greater usefulness), and adaptiveness (leading to greater
8. De Laurentis: A Case for an International Consortium on System-of-Systems Engineering
   The consortium could lead efforts in clarifying ambiguities and in seeking remedies to numerous open questions with respect to SoS analysis, SoS engineering (SoSE), as well as differences between systems engineering (SE) and SoSE
9. System-of-Systems Governance: New Patterns of Thought
   Systems of systems introduce complications for information technology (IT) governance because their individual system components exhibit considerable autonomy. The SoS characteristics discussed are (1) collaboration and authority, (2) motivation and accountability, (3) multiple models, (4) expectation of evolution, (5) highly fluid processes, and (6) minimal centrality. When systems cross organizational boundaries, the development problems—and, by extension, IT governance problems—are multi-plied due to conflicting structures, policies, and expectations.
10. Meilich07: Architecture Challenges in a Net Centric Environment
    
11. SoS Summer Conversation report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
    
12. Meilich08: Control Systems, How Cognitive and Social Domains Influence Decision Making
    
13. IEEE SoSE07: International Conference on System of Systems Engineering.
    
14. 01652264.pdf (application/pdf Object)
    
15. Meilich: Humans-In-The-Loop - Challenges in a Complex SoS Environment