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Large-scale complex IT systems

Ian Sommerville; Marta Kwiatkowska; Dave Cliff; Justin Keen; Richard F. Paige; John A. McDermid; Radu Calinescu; Tim Kelly;
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  • Published: 01 Jul 2012
  • Country: United Kingdom
Abstract
This paper explores the issues around the construction of large-scale complex systems which are built as 'systems of systems' and suggests that there are fundamental reasons, derived from the inherent complexity in these systems, why our current software engineering methods and techniques cannot be scaled up to cope with the engineering challenges of constructing such systems. It then goes on to propose a research and education agenda for software engineering that identifies the major challenges and issues in the development of large-scale complex, software-intensive systems. Central to this is the notion that we cannot separate software from the socio-technical...
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doi: 10.1145/2209249.2209268
handle: 10023/3155
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free text keywords: General Computer Science, Complex systems, Systems engineering, QA76 Computer software, QA76, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Information technology, business.industry, business, Reductionism, Complex system, Data science, World Wide Web, Computer science
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