System-of-Systems Engineering Management: A Review of Modern History and a Path Forward
By A. Gorod, Brian J. Sauser, John T. Boardman. IEEE Systems Journal, 2008
301 citations recorded by the source corpus.
As our knowledge of system of systems (SoS) has grown and evolved, so has our understanding of how to engineer and manage them. In systems engineering, we develop architectures and frameworks to bring meaning to this kind of uncertainty, but for SoS engineering (SoSE) we are still in search of how we can structure this understanding. In this paper, we review the SoS literature to illustrate the need to create an SoSE management framework based on the demands of constant technological progress in a complex dynamic environment. We conclude from this review that the history and evolution of defining SoS has shown that: (1) SoS can be defined by distinguishing characteristics and (2) SoS can be viewed as a network where the ldquobest practicesrdquo of network management can be applied to SoSE. We use these two theories as a foundation for our objective to create an effective SoSE management framework. To accomplish this, we utilize modified fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) network principles (SoSE management conceptual areas). Furthermore, cited distinguishing characteristics of SoS are also used to present a SoSE management framework. We conclude with a case analysis of this framework using a known and well-documented SoS (i.e., Integrated Deepwater System) to illustrate how to better understand, engineer, and manage within the domain of SoSE.
Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/517d99fec52162a76da55075eb122611cab6e5b0
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Control and Systems Engineering
In Management Science and Operations Research
Citations in the corpus
- A Novel Cloud-Based Framework for the Elderly Healthcare Services Using Digital Twin (2019, background): “In addition, because of the dynamic and uncertain properties of current healthcare systems that can be regarded as a system of systems (SoS) [30], [31], it is very difficult for us to research the behavior, patterns and laws of healthcare systems with real scenarios.”