A Contribution to Systems-of-Systems Concept Standardization

  • Authors

    • Ilyas Ed-daoui
    • Abdelkhalak El Hami
    • Mhamed Itmi
    • Nabil Hmina
    • Tomader Mazri
    2018-11-27
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21773
  • Systems-of-systems (SoS), SoS classification, SoS characteristics, SoS classification.
  • This paper aims to continue the work towards the standardization of the concept of systems-of-systems (SoS). A notion that has been around for quite a while, but still difficult to unanimously agree on one definition for it. Correspondingly, we collected some SoS definitions from literature in order to point out the similarities between them. We present a set of SoS characteristics that differentiate them from classic and complex systems. A classification of SoS is also detailed. Eventually, an application is presented in order to emphasize the importance of the classification.

     

     


     
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    Ed-daoui, I., El Hami, A., Itmi, M., Hmina, N., & Mazri, T. (2018). A Contribution to Systems-of-Systems Concept Standardization. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.16), 24-27. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21773