Looking back and forward: A retrospective and future directions on Software Engineering for systems-of-systems

arXiv - CS - Systems and Control Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:arxiv-2403.16740

Everton Cavalcante, Thais Batista, Flavio Oquendo

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Modern systems are increasingly connected and more integrated with other existing systems, giving rise to systems-of-systems (SoS). An SoS consists of a set of independent, heterogeneous systems that interact to provide new functionalities and accomplish global missions through emergent behavior manifested at runtime. The distinctive characteristics of SoS, when contrasted to traditional systems, pose significant research challenges within Software Engineering. These challenges motivate the need for a paradigm shift and the exploration of novel approaches for designing, developing, deploying, and evolving these systems. The International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems (SESoS) series started in 2013 to fill a gap in scientific forums addressing SoS from the Software Engineering perspective, becoming the first venue for this purpose. This article presents a study aimed at outlining the evolution and future trajectory of Software Engineering for SoS based on the examination of 57 papers spanning the 11 editions of the SESoS workshop (2013-2023). The study combined scoping review and scientometric analysis methods to categorize and analyze the research contributions concerning temporal and geographic distribution, topics of interest, research methodologies employed, application domains, and research impact. Based on such a comprehensive overview, this article discusses current and future directions in Software Engineering for SoS.

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回顾过去，展望未来：系统软件工程的回顾与未来方向

现代系统与其他现有系统的连接和集成度越来越高，从而产生了系统的系统（SoS）。SoS 由一组独立的异构系统组成，这些系统通过运行时的突发行为相互作用，提供新的功能并完成全球性任务。与传统系统相比，SoS 具有与众不同的特点，这给软件工程领域的研究带来了重大挑战。这些挑战促使人们需要转变模式，探索设计、开发、部署和发展这些系统的新方法。系统的软件工程（SESoS）系列国际研讨会始于2013年，旨在填补从软件工程角度探讨SoS的科学论坛的空白，并成为实现这一目的的第一个场所。本文介绍了一项研究，旨在通过对 SESoS 研讨会（2013-2023 年）11 届会议期间的 57 篇论文的研究，勾勒出 SoS 软件工程的发展和未来轨迹。研究结合了范围审查和科学计量分析方法，对研究贡献进行了分类和分析，涉及时间和地理分布、关注主题、采用的研究方法、应用领域和研究影响。基于这样的全面概述，本文讨论了 SoS 软件工程的当前和未来发展方向。

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