[Review] What is a System of Systems and Why Should I Care?
SoS and SoS Engineering (SoSE) are becoming important while living in complex and diverse systems. Systems are ubiquitous. SoS is used in many places such as home, business, disaster response, defense, space exploration system. Key characteristics of SoS How So is Different from a System? SoS is that many systems belong to various people and organizations, and there are emergent behaviors and common purpose. What is still controversial is whether emergent behaviors should be planned and managed. Also, someone needs to create an integrated protocol that makes it easy to get in and out of the SoS. And it is said that someone should be well planned, tested and managed to avoid undesirable behaviors. What is unique about SoS is that each CS is Operationally independent and Managerially independent. Types of SoS Virtual: There is no central management authority and no obvious SoS goal. For example, Collaborative: There is no SoS engineering team, CS collaborates voluntarily for cen...