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Architecture Support for System-of-Systems Evolution

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Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems (EDCIS 2002)

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Support is required to cope with the increasing demands and challenges of system evolution in large organizations. The support needs to come from not only new technology platforms or design solutions but also capabilities to deal with systems knowledge in all aspects of existing systems’ architectures. This paper introduces a key concept, architecture evolution environment, as a basis to develop architecture capabilities enabling the evolution of system-of-systems (SOS). This environment maintains the architecture information of individual systems, and supports the integration and evolution of systems in the context of system-of-systems. In particular, architecture interfaces are introduced to effectively facilitate system composition.

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  1. School of Network Computing, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3199, Australia

    Jun Han

  2. Department of Defence, DSTO C3 Research Centre, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia

    Pin Chen

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  1. Institute of Computing Technique, P.O. Box 2704, 100080, Beijing, China

    Yanbo Han

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, 10598, NY, Yorktown Heights, USA

    Stefan Tai

  3. FH Brandenburg, University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburger Str. 50, 14770, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

    Dietmar Wikarski

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Han, J., Chen, P. (2002). Architecture Support for System-of-Systems Evolution. In: Han, Y., Tai, S., Wikarski, D. (eds) Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems. EDCIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45785-2_26

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