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Abstract
There is a considerable increase in complexity when developing large-scale systems. Not only does it
require that you are capable of comprehending a more complex set of work products, you are also introducing
overhead since you need to manage a larger set of resources. This paper describes an architectural pattern
that is used to help control the added complexity overhead. The architectural pattern is referred to as a
system of interconnected systems.
This paper introduces an architectural pattern for systems of interconnected systems. This construct allows
recursion not only within one model, it considers each subsystem a system in its own right and the
recursion is between all the work products sets of each of the systems. The introduced architecture is used
for systems that are implemented by several communicating systems. Each involved system is described by its
own set of models, separate from other systems' models.
The examples given in this paper illustrate that the architecture for modeling systems of interconnected
systems is useful in many different application areas. In fact, you may use the suggested architecture for
any system where it 's possible to view the different parts as systems of their own.
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