Systems-of-Systems Engineering and the Pragmatics of Demand

Systems of systems that manage health care or enable Albert\´s "power to the edge" are expected to provide the flexibility to engage multiple enterprises in innovative, collaborative, ways to solve problems. This paper describes a systems engineering approach to engineer infrastructure that will support the restriction of systems of systems behavior at the time of use rather than at design time. We present a process for describing demands within their context of use, and how organizational variations in collaborative approaches (geometries-of-use) can be related to variations in these demands-in-context (pragmatics), thus giving a way to engineer a systems-of-systems\´ agility i.e. its ability to adapt to changing demands.