Operads for Designing Systems of Systems
This addresses the challenge of flexible system-of-systems engineering for domains such as maritime operations, but appears incremental as it builds on existing operad theory.
The paper tackled the problem of designing and tasking systems of systems for complex tasks like maritime search and rescue, by developing network operads as a tool that offers new ways to handle changing levels of abstraction.
System of systems engineering seeks to analyze, design and deploy collections of systems that together can flexibly address an array of complex tasks. In the Complex Adaptive System Composition and Design Environment program, we developed "network operads" as a tool for designing and tasking systems of systems, and applied them to domains including maritime search and rescue. The network operad formalism offers new ways to handle changing levels of abstraction in system-of-system design and tasking.