**3.4 The discussion**

As previously mentioned, the main challenge of complexity science is not only to understand and manage the individual components and their connections that make the configuration (static structure) but also to understand how these connections affect the whole. The Foundation for Open Component Analysis is specified on top of three synergic contexts, The Physics of Open Systems ontology, System specification as an SoS composition with multidimensional and multilevel instantiation capabilities, and the simplification mechanisms based on the extendible set of the Principal Component Analysis methods. The orchestration is specified through the System of Systems Hyper-Framework Model where advanced mathematical and computational modeling, analysis, and simulations may be applied to investigate how these orchestrated configurations are structured and change with time.
