التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
System of Systems Engineering Requirements: Challenges and Guidelines. |
| المؤلفون: |
Keating, Charles B.1,2 ckeating@odu.edu, Padilla, Jose J.3, Adams, Kevin4 |
| المصدر: |
Engineering Management Journal. Dec2008, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p24-31. 8p. 2 Charts. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*SYSTEMS engineering, *SYSTEM analysis, *SYSTEMS design, *SYSTEMS theory, COMPLEXITY (Philosophy), EXTRAPOLATION, HOLISM, PLURALISM, SOLIDIFICATION |
| مستخلص: |
Traditional systems engineering (SE) has been successful in developing requirements that are objective, verifiable, and definitive. These requirements are chiefly related to technical or technological issues necessary to achieve a desired level of system performance. In contrast, System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) engages a more complex and holistic problem space, including organizational, managerial, policy, human/social, and political dimensions that exist in conditions of emergence, ambiguity, and uncertainty; therefore, the traditional SE requirements paradigm must be called into question. At present, the SoSE requirements paradigm has not reached the level of maturity or sophistication experienced by traditional SE. It is a miscalculation to expect successful approaches for SE requirements development to enjoy the same level of success when applied directly to the SoSE problem domain. The purpose of this article is to explore the nature of requirements from an SoSE perspective. First, the article establishes a foundation for differences between the SE and SoSE problem domains. Second, the traditional SE paradigm governing requirements is developed. Third, the specific nature of the SoSE problem domain implications for requirements is established. Fourth, guidelines for requirements within SoSE efforts are provided. The article concludes with key implications for the development and use of requirements in the SoSE field by practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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