TY - JOUR
T1 - Systomics
T2 - Toward a biology of system of systems
AU - Sauser, Brian
AU - Boardman, John
AU - Verma, Dinesh
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - This paper will propose to do as von Bertalanffy once did, and that is to draw on the biological sciences, now hugely advanced beyond that ever imagined by von Bertalanffy and his peers, and use its findings, architectures, and emergent behaviors to argue for a biology of system of systems (SoS). We seek a science and approach that we believe will provide richer insight into SoS failure, health maintenance, repair, replication, growth, and mutationall those features of the evolution of systems which constantly challenge us and which, thus far, we have only been able to explain via macrolevel models and tools. We propose to go deeper into the structure of these systems and to discover their DNA (building blocks), thus establishing a foundation to understand their behavior using biological analogies, which we believe will turn out to be more than metaphors. We assert that these systems have microstructures which will explain their individual life cycle and their communal ecology.
AB - This paper will propose to do as von Bertalanffy once did, and that is to draw on the biological sciences, now hugely advanced beyond that ever imagined by von Bertalanffy and his peers, and use its findings, architectures, and emergent behaviors to argue for a biology of system of systems (SoS). We seek a science and approach that we believe will provide richer insight into SoS failure, health maintenance, repair, replication, growth, and mutationall those features of the evolution of systems which constantly challenge us and which, thus far, we have only been able to explain via macrolevel models and tools. We propose to go deeper into the structure of these systems and to discover their DNA (building blocks), thus establishing a foundation to understand their behavior using biological analogies, which we believe will turn out to be more than metaphors. We assert that these systems have microstructures which will explain their individual life cycle and their communal ecology.
KW - System of systems
KW - Systomics
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U2 - 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2048024
DO - 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2048024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953709010
SN - 1083-4427
VL - 40
SP - 803
EP - 814
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans
IS - 4
M1 - 5467221
ER -