What is a System of Systems and Why Should I Care

Introduction Today’s need for more complex, more capable systems in a short timeframe is leading more organizations towards the integration of new and existing systems with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products into network-centric, knowledge-based systems of systems (SoS). With this approach, system development processes to define the new multi-system architecture, identify sources to either supply or develop the required components, and eventually integrate and test these high level components are evolving and are being referred to as SoS Engineering (SoSE).

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