Towards Boundary Discovery in Complex Systems

Many of today’s extremely complex systems are cross-domain (covering more than one area of expertise). They require development by multiple stakeholder groups with different goals, each implementing a subset of the functionality required for these system of systems to operate. As these systems become more complex, it becomes more difficult to understand how the subsystems fit together into the whole. This paper investigates leveraging stakeholder use cases (created by different expert groups) by quantifying the similarities between the use case documents and using clustering algorithms to group the use cases together. This provides an idea of how systems and subsystems may be constructed to implement these use cases and help understand system interactions and boundaries.

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