Systems of Systems Architecture Design

Cross-disciplinary Architecting of Systems of Systems - Bridging the Gap

“…Systems Engineering and Software Engineering disciplines are deeply intertwined in modern SoS: most of them (particularly in domains like defense, automotive, aeronautics and astronomy) are governed by SE processes, while their key features result from SWE ones [28]. On the other hand, both disciplines, despite having common roots, are known for being misaligned in multiple areas, including their architecting practices, due to their separate evolutionary paths [29].…”

“…8 Chapter 1. Introduction More importantly, this missing cross-disciplinary viewpoint in the existing research is seemingly connected to an important issue in the area: major integration and operational issues in SoS are linked to inconsistencies between the system and software-level architectures [28,27,35]. To illustrate this, let us imagine an SoS that requires enabling the cooperation between a series of hardware and softwareintensive constituents.…”