Systems-of-Systems (SoS) have become increasingly complex and are frequently used in highly distributed, dynamic, and open environments. SoS have emerged as a new class of evolving software systems, where constituent systems (themselves systems in their own right) work cooperatively in order to fulfill specific missions. SoS are characterized by operational and managerial independence, distribution, evolutionary development, and creation of emergent behavior. These characteristics have therefore raised substantial challenges to software engineering researchers and practitioners. SoS and especially Software-intensive SoS (SiSoS) is becoming a hotspot, from both the research and the industrial viewpoints, in particular, related to crucial classes of applications. Furthermore, SiSoS are increasingly involved in applications that address societal needs, such as environmental monitoring, distributed energy grids management, emergency coordination and crisis management, global traffic control, and smart cities. In this context, the research topic of software engineering for SoS and SiSoS needs to receive more attention and research effort, considering that the software part of SoS is becoming increasingly larger and more complex. Software engineering theories and tools are needed to adequately design, implement, operate, and even evolve such dynamic systems.
Future perspective, challenges, and directions of SoS research and/or development are welcome.
Philippe Aniorte, Iut Bayonne, France |
Vincent Arnould ,Naval Group, France |
Mahmoud Barhamgi, LIRIS, Lyon, France |
Thais Batista , Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Brazil |
Faiza Belala , Univ. of Constantine, Algeria |
Rodrigo Bonacin , CTI, Brazil |
Isabelle Borne, IRISA - Univ. of South Brittany, France |
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
Jeremy Buisson, IRISA - St-Cyr, France |
Everton Cavalcante, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Brazil |
Vanea Chiprianov, IMT Atlantique, France |
Flavia Delicato, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Cedric Eichler, INSA Bourges, France |
Jamal El Hachem, Univ. Pau, France |
Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute at the Univ. of Potsdam, Germany |
Volker Gruhn, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Akram Kamoun, ReDCAD Lab, Tunisia |
Nesrine Khabou, ISITC, Tunisia |
Axel Legay, INIRIA, France |
Nicole Levy, CNAM, France |
Cecilia M.F.Rubira, Unicamp, Brazil |
Nazim Madhavji, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
Raffaela Mirandola, Polimi, Italy |
Francisco Moo-Mena, Uady, Mexico |
Hassan Mountassir, Uni. Franche Comte, France |
Henry Muccini, University of l'Aquila Italy |
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, ICMC, USP, Brazil |
Elena Navarro, Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - Univ. of South, Brittany, France |
Jennifer Perez, ETSISI, Technical University of Madrid |
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
Salah Sadou, IRISA - Univ. of South Brittany, France |
Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, France |
Nicolas Seydoux, INSA Toulouse, France |
Bedir Tekinerdogan, WUR, Netherlands |
Thierry Villemur, Univ Toulouse, France |
Huibiao Zhu, ECNU, China |
Eduardo Silva, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |