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SoS thinking: an approach to conceptualising and understanding military systems-of-systems

SoS thinking: an approach to conceptualising and understanding military systems-of-systems Systems-of-systems (SoS) are acknowledged as an engineering challenge for defence organisations, due to high complexity of various military SoS and their development processes. Challenges in achieving a clear and shared understanding of SoS problems and difficulties in managing complexity have undermined not only application effectiveness of architectural approaches and SoS methodologies, but also quality of their outcomes. This paper introduces SoS thinking that offers a language and process to effectively conceptualise, understand, communicate about and assess military SoS. Based on the proposed critical thinking in multi-dimensions, high complexity of SoS problems can be explored, contextualised and addressed through using a set of SoS lenses in a number of important aspects, including the engineering factor, diversity, relationships, design paradigm, development states and technical statuses. Keywords: system-of-systems; SoS; SoS thinking; SoS engineering; SoSE; military SoS; complexity; categorisation; interdependency; development states; technical status; SoS design. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Chen, P. and Unewisse, M. (2017) `SoS thinking: an approach to conceptualising and understanding military systems-of-systems', Int. J. System of Systems Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.74­101. Biographical notes: Pin Chen holds a degree in Computer Science and a PhD from ANU. He is the leader in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of System of Systems Engineering Inderscience Publishers

SoS thinking: an approach to conceptualising and understanding military systems-of-systems

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Inderscience Publishers
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Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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1748-0671
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1748-068X
DOI
10.1504/IJSSE.2017.083939
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Abstract

Systems-of-systems (SoS) are acknowledged as an engineering challenge for defence organisations, due to high complexity of various military SoS and their development processes. Challenges in achieving a clear and shared understanding of SoS problems and difficulties in managing complexity have undermined not only application effectiveness of architectural approaches and SoS methodologies, but also quality of their outcomes. This paper introduces SoS thinking that offers a language and process to effectively conceptualise, understand, communicate about and assess military SoS. Based on the proposed critical thinking in multi-dimensions, high complexity of SoS problems can be explored, contextualised and addressed through using a set of SoS lenses in a number of important aspects, including the engineering factor, diversity, relationships, design paradigm, development states and technical statuses. Keywords: system-of-systems; SoS; SoS thinking; SoS engineering; SoSE; military SoS; complexity; categorisation; interdependency; development states; technical status; SoS design. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Chen, P. and Unewisse, M. (2017) `SoS thinking: an approach to conceptualising and understanding military systems-of-systems', Int. J. System of Systems Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.74­101. Biographical notes: Pin Chen holds a degree in Computer Science and a PhD from ANU. He is the leader in

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International Journal of System of Systems Engineering – Inderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2017

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