Complex Systems and Systems of Systems Engineering

With the growing maturity of information and communicationtechnologies, systems have been interconnected within growingnetworks, yielding new services through a combination of the systemfunctionalities. This leads to an increasing complexity that has tobe managed in order to take advantage of these system integrations. This book provides key answers as to how such systems of systemscan be engineered and how their complexity can be mastered.
After reviewing some definitions on systems of systems engineering, the book focuses on concrete applications and offers a survey ofthe activities and techniques that allow engineering of complexsystems and systems of systems. Case studies, ranging fromemergency situations such as Hurricane Katrina and its crisismanagement or a generic scenario of a major traffic accident andits emergency response, to the establishment of a scientific basisin the Antarctic region illustrate key factors of success and trapsto avoid in order to cope with such situations.