TY - BOOK ID - 138521101 TI - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems PY - 2015 PB - Los Alamitos, California : Conference Publishing Services, IEEE Computer Society, DB - UniCat KW - Systems software UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138521101 AB - Annotation 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 managerial and operational independence, geographic distribution, evolutionary development, and creation of emergent behavior These characteristics have therefore raised substantial challenges to software engineering researchers and practitioners. ER -