Paper Info
Title
Evolving systems of systems: industrial challenges and research perspectives
Abstract
An increasing number of software systems today are systems of systems (SoS) comprising decentralized and heterogeneous systems with operational and managerial independence. The evolution of SoS is the rule and not the exception in practice due to frequently changing requirements, technologies, and markets. However, providing adequate support for the evolution of SoS is rather challenging as their behavior often emerges at runtime and is difficult to predict. Hence, SoS must be monitored during simulation and operation to ensure compliance with its requirements. In this position paper, we present challenges for SoS evolution from the domain of industrial automation. We discuss existing approaches supporting SoS evolution and derive research issues. We outline requirements for SoS evolution support and present key capabilities of a flexible monitoring and evolution infrastructure. We conclude with a discussion of research perspectives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2489850.2489851
SESoS
Keywords
Field
DocType
flexible monitoring,evolving system,derive research issue,present key capability,present challenge,industrial challenge,heterogeneous system,research perspective,evolution infrastructure,adequate support,sos evolution,sos evolution support,software evolution,systems of systems,requirements
Evolving systems,Systems engineering,Position paper,System of systems,Automation,Software system,Engineering,Software evolution
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.50
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Vierhauser128025.55
Rick Rabiser2136979.63
Paul Grünbacher32007118.84
Christian Danner470.50
Stefan Wallner5392.00