User:Isbhall

Much of my professional experience has been focused on understanding the often emergent behavior of systems of systems (SoS) operating in dynamic environments. Achieving such an understanding relies on advanced modeling and simulation techniques. A significant part of my energy is dedicated to the development of those techniques. Most of the rest of my time is directed towards using the resulting tools to design SoS architectures and/or understand the behavioral consequences of proposed new systems on the behavior of existing SoSs. In both cases a significant part of the work involves defining the ‘concepts of operations’ which collectively determine how the systems will coordinate to achieve desired ends. This is technically one of the most challenging aspects of what we do simply because the system components of these SoSs are not designed with static preconceived roles, relations and responsibilities. I.e. a significant part of what we do is to engineer the decentralized processes by which SoSs self-organize and self-adapt to the dynamic environments in which they are situated.