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3.3.2 How Should We Use the Term “System of Systems” and Why Should We Care?
Author(s) -
Cocks Dan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2006.tb02755.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , value systems , systems science , computer science , value (mathematics) , epistemology , data science , sociology , artificial intelligence , programming language , geography , social science , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , machine learning
As an engineering discipline, systems engineering is relatively young. As this branch of applied science comes of age, it struggles with nomenclature and boundaries and roles of interaction with other disciplines. Yet before the foundations are quite set and cured, additional terms are being introduced to imply specialized subdivisions or independent offshoots of the yet‐ill‐defined context of systems engineering. This paper offers a proposed definition for “System of Systems” to distinguish it from “System” and “Family of Systems” that not only delineates the differences among these terms, but also postulates that there is value in recognizing these differences.