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System of Systems
A
system according to Hitchins is "an open set of complementary, interacting parts with properties, capabilities and behaviours of the whole set emerging both from the parts and from their interactions."
A system on a higher level can contain other systems. So the term “
system of systems” could apply at any level. Or, conversely, at any level we care to choose we can perceive systems, contained subsystems and containing super-systems. [1]
The paragraphs on system of systems within Derek Hitchins' page do not, I think, convey the fact that Derek (in the paper referenced) does not advocate the use of the the term - on the contrary, he sees it as a tautology in that every system can be a system-of-systems and vice-versa. He also points out in the paper that there are dangers in adopting the terminology simply because of the inherent reductionist tendency when you term anything as comprising other things - thus the term could be deemed to be contrary to a holistic or systems approach.
Due to possible violation of copyright, see
WP:Copyvio, I have removed the worksection of this article for now. --
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08:54, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
P.S. I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.reply