Title :
Socio-technical considerations for enterprise system interfaces in Systems of Systems
Author :
Siemieniuch, Carys E. ; Sinclair, Mark A.
Author_Institution :
ESoS Res. Group, Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
Abstract :
The inclusion of humans in the systems comprising the System of Systems (SoS) mean that the boundaries of the SoS become fuzzy, and the interfaces become more complicated. Two particular issues are discussed; incompatibilities between organisations at the interfaces, requiring some changes to the ways companies operate; and incomplete information, requiring integrity of behaviour to enable trust to replace knowledge. As a consequence, some tool requirements for design and sustainment of SoS are outlined.
Keywords :
organisational aspects; social sciences; systems engineering; SoS design; SoS fuzzy boundaries; SoS sustainment; behaviour integrity; company operation; enterprise system interfaces; organisation incompatibilities; socio-technical considerations; systems-of-systems; Abstracts; Companies; Contracts; Humans; Resilience; Sociotechnical systems; incompatibilities; interface design; sparse information; tools;
Conference_Titel :
System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), 2012 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Genoa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2974-3
DOI :
10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384123
