20.5 Systems of systems architecture
Perhaps the most crucial activity of the systems of systems engineering process is architectural design. Architectural design involves selecting the systems to be included in the SoS, assessing how these systems will interoperate, and designing mechanisms that facilitate interaction. Key decisions on data management, redundancy, and communications are made. In essence, the SoS architect is responsible for realizing the vision set out in the conceptual design of the system. For organizational and federated systems, in particular, decisions made at this stage are crucial to the performance, resilience, and maintainability of the system of systems.
Maier (Maier 1998) discusses four general principles for the ...
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