Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to system of systems / Mo Jamshidi -- An open systems approach to system of systems engineering / Cyrus Azani -- Engineering of a system of systems / Gary D. Wells and Andrew P. Sage -- System of systems architecting / Cihan H. Dagli and Nil Kilcay-Ergin -- Modeling and simulation for systems of systems engineering / Saurabh Mittal ... [et al.] -- Net centricity and system of systems / Robert J. Cloutier, Michael J. DiMario, and Hans W. Polzer -- Emergence in system of systems / Charles B. Keating -- System of systems management / Brian Sauser, John Boardman, and Alex Gorod -- Systems engineering for department of defense systems of systems / Judith S. Dahmann -- Boeing's SoSE approach to e-Enabling commercial airlines / George F. Wilber -- System of systems perspectives on infrastructures / Wil A.H. Thissen and Paulien M. Herder -- Advances in wireless sensor networks : a case study in system of systems perspective / Prasanna Sridhar, Asad M. Madni, and Mo Jamshidi -- A system of systems view of services / James M. Tien -- System of systems engineering in space exploration / Steven D. Jolly and Brian K. Muirhead. Communication and navigation networks in space system of systems / Kul B. Bhasin and Jeffrey L. Hayden -- Operation and control of electrical power systems / Petr Korba and Ian A. Hiskens -- Future transportation fuel system of systems / Michael Duffy ... [et al.] -- Sustainable environmental management from a system of systems engineering perspective / Keith W. Hipel ... [et al.] -- Robotic swarms as system of systems / Ferat Sahin -- Understanding transportation as a system of systems problem / Daniel A. DeLaurentis -- Health care system of systems / Nilmini Wickramasinghe ... [et al.] -- System of systems engineering of GEOSS / Ryosuke Shibasaki and Jay S. Pearlman.