Meet the editor

Dr. Tien Nguyen serves as an adjunct research professor in Mathematics at CSUF, where he is also a visiting scholar and advisor at the Center of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He works full-time as a deputy chief architect of an International Program at The Aerospace Corporation. Prior to this, he was associate director, interim director, and principal technical staff. He was with Raytheon serving as Program-Area Chief Engineer

in Advanced Concept Technology and retired as Engineering Fellow in 2014. He also served as NASA delegate to the international CCSDS and many of his works were adopted as CCSDS standards. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Claremont Graduate University. He is an expert in advanced mathematical modeling of complex systems-of-systems.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by John D. Nguyen*

*by Alper Pahsa*

*by Tien M. Nguyen*

of Systems Perspective

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

on Enterprise Systems

and Decision Support Final *by Tien M. Nguyen and Tung X. Bui*

**Preface XI**

Recent Trends in SOS Design and MS&A **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Systems-of-Systems (SOS) Engineering **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35**

SOS Architecture Design and Analysis **51**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 75**

SOS Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Applications **95**

**Chapter 6 97**

SOS Enterprise, SOSE CONOPS, SOSE Architecture Design Approach: A

System-of-Systems Enterprise CONOPS Assessment Decision Support Tools

Chapter Review on Computer Simulation of Melt Spinning: A System

Systems-of-Systems Taxonomy: Space and Airborne Systems Perspective

Applications of Systems Engineering Technical Process Flows

Perspective on Space and Airborne Systems

*by Thomas O. Freeze, Tien M. Nguyen and Charles H. Lee*

*by Derseh Yilie Limeneh and Kelem Tiessasie Yilma*

Introductory Chapter: Recent Trends in Systems-of-Systems Design, Modeling, Simulation and Analysis for Complex Systems, Gaming

## Contents



Preface

This professional technical book is intended for engineers, scientists, and researchers in both systems engineering advanced mathematical modeling and simulation fields. The objectives of this book are to present a collection of chapters on (i) Systems-of-Systems (SOS) engineering and SOS architecture design and analysis addressing the challenges associated with SOS Enterprise Architecture (SOSEA) design and SOS Enterprise (SOSE) CONOPS Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A); (ii) SOS perspectives with MS&A applications on practical systems; and (iii) decision support systems and game theoretical modeling and analysis. To meet

• Section 1 "Recent Trends in SOS Design and MS&A": This section provides an introductory chapter discussing recent trends in SOS architecture design, MS&A for complex systems, and gaming and decision support systems, and it relates these trends to the chapters presented in this book. This introductory chapter also discusses the differences between Systems-of-Systems (SOS) and System-of-Systems (SoS) and the extension of the existing SoS engineering approach to SOS for architecture design and MS&A of complex systems or

• Section 2 "Systems-of-Systems (SOS) Engineering": This section includes two chapters, namely, Chapters 2 and 3, with emphasis on the taxonomy of a complex SOS and System-of-Systems (SoS) engineering method and process for managing an enterprise transformation. Chapter 2 provides (i) a thorough discussion of SOS taxonomy with emphasis on space and airborne systems applications and (ii) two examples of military satellite communications (SATCOM) and manned aircraft systems. Chapter 3 discusses the applications of system engineering technical process flows on enterprise systems with an

• Section 3 "SOS Architecture Design and Analysis": This section also provides two chapters. Chapter 4 defines the SOSE, SOSEA, and SOSE CONOPS and presents an approach for the design and development of a complex SOSEA with a focus on space and airborne systems. Chapter 4 also presents SOSEA CONOPS assessment framework and models. Chapter 5 discusses the implementation of the proposed SOS framework and MS&A models in MATLAB and presents preliminary results for a notional space SOSEA in the presence of radio frequency interference (RFI). Chapter 5 also presents newly proposed SOSEA resiliency metrics for assessing complex SOSE CONOPS, including Resilient Assessment Index Against RFI (RAI-RFI), Spectrum Resiliency

• Section 4 "SOS Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) Applications": This section presents three chapters, namely, Chapters 6, 7, and 8, demonstrating the use of SoS and SOS perspectives to simulate and analyze practical complex processes and systems related to the melt spinning process, and test systems for assessing the effect of friction on drive screw and spectrum

Assessment Index (SRAI), and Resilient Capacity (RC).

these objectives, this book is organized as follows:

emphasis on SoS perspectives.

processes.
