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Efforts to realize smarter cities are an important pathway to contribute to the achievement of various SDGs. In order to pursue smarter cities in developed countries, it is essential to work on the evolution of SoS (System of Systems), which is how to introduce new systems while coordinating existing systems. So far, several systems engineering studies have been made to evolve SoS in the field of military systems, but the field of socio-technical systems necessary for smarter cities is still unexplored. This paper examines why SoS evolution in socio-technical systems is necessary and how it should be addressed, assuming that it will be applied in actual cities aiming to achieve the SDGs, and proposes an exploratory approach to SoS evolution that incorporates the concept of transition management, which is considered indispensable for social transformation.
Adapted from Motohisa Funabashi “Towards SoS Evolution Management–Approaches and Social Significance–,” Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 941–944 (2020). Partly reprinted by permission of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.
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Funabashi, M. (2023). Towards SoS Evolution Management for Developing Smarter Cities: Social Significance and Approaches. In: Kaihara, T., Kita, H., Takahashi, S., Funabashi, M. (eds) Innovative Systems Approach for Facilitating Smarter World. Design Science and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7776-3_13
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