Towards an understanding of emergence in systems-of-systems

Emergence is a systemic phenomenon in an System-of-Systems (SoS) that cannot be reduced to the behavior of the isolated parts of a system. It is the objective of this paper to contribute to the understanding of emergent phenomena in SoSs. After a short look at the literature on emergence in the doma...

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Published in2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE) pp. 214 - 219
Main Authors Kopetz, H., Hoftberger, O., Fromel, B., Brancati, F., Bondavalli, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2015
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Autonomy
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Computers
Emergence
Emergent phenomena
Hierarchy
Holarchy
Modeling
Organizations
System-of-Systems
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Summary:Emergence is a systemic phenomenon in an System-of-Systems (SoS) that cannot be reduced to the behavior of the isolated parts of a system. It is the objective of this paper to contribute to the understanding of emergent phenomena in SoSs. After a short look at the literature on emergence in the domains of philosophy and computer science, this paper continues with an elaboration on multi-level nearly-decomposable systems, gives a tentative definition of emergence and discusses how emergent behavior manifests itself in an SoS.
DOI:10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151925