System-of-Systems Engineering - Liophant Simulation

No Shortage of Research Issues and Challenges• Limits of Predictability and Controllability• Time-Varying Dependencies• Robust vs. Optimal System Designs• Failure Modes: Graceful Degradation, SystemInstabilities, Controllability• Emergent Behaviors and UnpredictableEnvironments• Evolvability, Flexibility, and Responsiveness, andthe Role of Redundancy• Characteristics of Complex Systems (MultipleHeterogeneous Systems, Distributed, NotNecessarily Co-Located, Human-Social / TechnicalInteractions)• Difficult Decision Making Environments, and theImportance of Human/System Interactions• Time-Dependent Systems and the Importance ofUnderstanding Network Dynamics• Operational Independence of Elements• Managerial Independence of Elements• Impacts of Policy and Development/ AcquisitionDecisions on Readiness and Capability• Architectures (Distributed, Centralized,Heterogeneous, Hierarchical, Hybrids)• Experimentation (Component vs. System-Level,Interactions, Emergent Behaviors, Co-Evolutionof Technologies, Manned and UnmannedInteractions)• Modeling and Simulation (Static, Dynamic,Simulation Based Design, Agent-based)• Energy Integration with Emerging Technologies• Capability-Based Design Solutions for Robustnessto Changing Threat Scenarios• Metrics (Traditional, Non-Traditional,Quantification of Social Aspects)• Effective Decision Making (Repercussions,Coupling Techno-Policy- Infrastructure, System &Component Boundaries, Dependencies,Propagation of Information)Developing Methods and Techniques for System of Systems EngineeringDr. Dimitri Mavris, dimitri.mavris@ae.gatech.edu56