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A. Bondavalli, S. Bouchenak, H. Kopetz:
"Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems, Foundations - A Conceptual Model and Some Derivations: The AMADEOS Legacy";
in series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", series editor: D. Hutchison, T. Kanade, J. Kittler, J. Kleinberg, F. Mattern, J. Mitchell, M. Naor, C. Pandu Rangan, B. Steffen, D. Terzopoulos, D. Tygar, G. Weikum et al.; Springer International Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-47589-9, 257 pages.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Technical Systems-of-Systems (SoS) - in the form of networked, independent constituent computing systems temporarily collaborating to achieve a well-defined objective - form the backbone of most of today´s infrastructure. The energy grid, most transportation systems, the global banking industry, the water-supply system, the military equipment, many embedded systems, and a great number more, strongly depend on systems-of-systems. The correct operation and continuous availability of these underlying systems-of-systems are fundamental for the functioning of our modern society.

The 8 papers presented in this book document the main insights on Cyber-Physical System of Systems (CPSoSs) that were gained during the work in the FP7-610535 European Research Project AMADEOS (acronym for Architecture for Multi-criticality Agile Dependable Evolutionary Open System-of-Systems). It is the objective of this book to present, in a single consistent body, the foundational concepts and their relationships. These form a conceptual basis for the description and understanding of SoSs and go deeper in what we consider the characterizing and distinguishing elements of SoSs: time, emergence, evolution and dynamicity.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47590-5