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, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and others)
• 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, and 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