Topics of Interest

SESoS 2026 focuses on the following (and related) topics:

• Support to SoS development process;
• Complexity and systems thinking applied to system management and engineering of SoS and SECO;
• Platform development and governance;
• SoS and SECO modeling and analysis;
• Dynamic reconfiguration at different levels (strategic, tactical, operational) to revisit coordination mechanisms and emergent behavior;
• Studies on specific domains and areas (open source, mobile, embedded, autonomous systems, AI, IoT technologies etc.);
• SECO business and social aspects;
• SoS and SECO stakeholder communication and coordination;
• Human and technical trust (in particular, building trust in SECO and their components);
• Security and privacy in SoS and SECO;
• Simulation and model-based engineering;
• Decision-making processes and tools for SoS and SECO;
• Techniques and tools for verification/validation/testing;
• SECO sustainability and diversity;
• Continuous engineering practices and digital twins;
• Empirical Software Engineering for SoS and SECO;
• Systematic literature reviews and mapping studies;
• Experience from industrial perspectives and case studies;
• Strategies, relationships, and applications of SoS/SECO.