Decision Support Systems and Integrated Platforms: New Approaches for Managing Systems of Systems

摘要

Currently, in different contexts of strategic relevance, there is the increasing need of integrating and coordinating previously autonomous elements and systems to reach a common goal that is otherwise not achievable. Such a challenge requires competencies from many heterogeneous domains, leading to very complex and often ineffective management processes. The need to formalize a structured and unifying framework to support decision makers leads to the introduction of the systems of systems (SoS), that is, "large-scale integrated systems that are heterogeneous and independently operable on their own, but are networked together for a common goal" [1].