As part of INCOSE Systems of Systems (SoS) Working Group efforts to work towards development of practical approaches to address SoS challenges, there is an ongoing collaboration between the INCOSE Systems of Systems and Complexity Working Groups to identify ways to leverage work coming from the complexity community to address this SE practice area.
In particular, the INCOSE Complexity Primer and the recent paper on ‘appreciative methods’ provide approaches to characterize and address complexity. In this initiative, these have been viewed through the lens of systems of systems to assess how and why systems of systems exhibit complexity, as the basis for identifying approaches from the complexity community that can guide the application of systems principles to systems of systems.
This roundtable will share the results of this working group effort to date and provide a set of perspectives on the nature of SoS complexity, an understanding of the drivers and dimensions, and approaches to address these from both the complexity and SoSE principles and practices.