An approach for systems evolution

Due to the immaturity of practice and the increasing complexity of system-of-systems (SOS), there have been obvious needs to develop a systematic methodology that enables the evolution of such systems. This paper presents a prototype design for a synthetic systems evolution environment (SEE). We will investigate new methods, tools to properly manage and instruct the evolution practice by leveraging system architecture knowledge, outline the purpose of the environment, describes the concept of operations, detail the main junctions, processes in utilizing the system architecture, knowledge for systems evolution, and introduces the initial high-level architecture design. Furthermore, we will document the approach for developing the environment.