A personal history in system of systems

Author

White, B.E.

Author_Institution

CAU-SES, Sudbury, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

693

Lastpage

702

Abstract

The author traces his 50 years of personal experience with computers, communications, and networking (CCN) system of systems (SoS). He provides a perception of how common views of SoS have evolved from strictly technology-based single systems, to pervasive, “stove-piped”, programmatic systems, to (not so common views of) SoS, and finally into the realm of “complex” systems. He characterizes the defining, monitoring, management and forecasting of operational properties and boundaries for various example systems from each phase of his career. Insights gained from his experience, mainly expressed in terms of complex systems engineering (CSE) principles, mini-case studies, and SE practices, are offered as a guiding perspective for future complex systems development.

Keywords

history; large-scale systems; telecommunication networks; communication system; complex systems engineering; computers system; networking system of systems; operational properties; personal experience; personal history; pervasive system; programmatic system; Monitoring; Power capacitors; Satellites; Thyristors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT), 2010 International Congress on

Conference_Location

Moscow

ISSN

2157-0221

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7285-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUMT.2010.5676561

Filename

5676561