Bernard P. Zeigler & Hessam S. Sarjoughian 
Guide to Modeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems [PDF ebook] 

Part IModeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems DEVS Integrated Development Environments System Entity Structure Basics DEVS Natural Language Models and Elaborations Specialization and Pruning Aspects and Multi-Aspects Managing Inheritance in Pruning Automated and Rule-Based Pruning Part IIDEVS Simulation Protocol Dynamic Structure: Agent Modeling and Publish/Subscribe Interest-Based Information Exchange: Mappings and Models Languages for Constructing DEVS Models Part IIIFlexible Modeling Support Environments Service-Based Software Systems Cloud System Simulation Modeling Model Repositories for Systems of Systems Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems Activity-Based Implementations of Systems of Systems

Dr. Bernard P. Zeigler is Emeritus Professor and Co-Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS), at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He is also Chief Scientist at RTSync, Rockville, MD, USA.Dr. Hessam S. Sarjoughian is Associate Professor and Co-Director of ACIMS at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.The chapter Modeling and Simulation of Living Systems as Systems of Systems is written by Raphaël Duboz and Jean-Christophe Soulié of CIRAD (the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development), France.