Abstract:The developing discipline of Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE) Michael Henshaw is Professor of Systems Engineering; he is head of the Systems Division and leads the Engineering Systems of Systems (EsoS) Research Group at Loughborough University. His research focuses on integration and management of complex socio-technical systems, with a particular emphasis on the challenges of through-life management of systems and capabilities.Carys Siemieniuch is Professor of Enterprise Systems Engineering at Loughborough University. Carys has both UK professional and European CREE registration as an ergonomist, with expertise across the full range of systems-related human factors topics. Her key skills are in knowledge lifecycle management systems, organisational and cultural aspects of enterprise modeling techniques, organisational systems architectures, dynamic allocation of function and the design of complex systems. She is active in both the military and civilian domains.Murray Sinclair is now a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University, as well as a Visiting Academic at the University of Sydney. He is a Systems Ergonomist of some 40 years standing, having been an academic member of Loughborough University since 1970. His interests have evolved from the understanding of organisational processes of manufacturing from the shopfloor, through manufacturing systems engineering to design processes and the management of knowledge. Latterly, due to the steady infiltration of information technology into society and its pervasiveness in the lives of individuals, his interests now include the assurance of ethical behaviour by autonomous and semiautonomous systems, such as robots, healthcare systems and the like.

Abstract--A key issue for today's decision support tools is the increasing complexity of the environment in which industries and their supply chains operate. These entities can be classified as Enterprise Systems and Systems of Systems. The aim of this paper is to describe the development of an integrated modelling approach that could deliver greater understanding of the influences associated with the decision

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