An Open Systems Approach to System of Systems Engineering

System of Systems Engineering: Innovations for the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-43

  Azani, Cyrus ^a,b  

^a Northrop Grumman Technical Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Open systems development approaches; SoS joint engineering team (JET) and SoSE; System of systems engineering (SoSE) and open systems approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868053943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470403501.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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