Open at the top; open at the bottom; and continually (but slowly) evolving

Proceedings 2006 IEEE/SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 41-46

  Abbott, Russ ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Evolving; Open; System of systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SYSTEM PRIMITIVES; SYSTEM'S FUNCTIONALITY; SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845933711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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