David Greenwood PhD thesis

.................................................................................................................iv Contents...................................................................................................................v 1. Thesis Overview..................................................................................................1 1.1 Introduction...............................................................................................1 1.2 Academic Merit ........................................................................................2 1.3 Problem Space ..........................................................................................2 1.4 Solution Space ..........................................................................................3 1.5 Thesis & General Approach .....................................................................4 1.6 Aim and Objectives ..................................................................................4 1.7 Novel Contributions..................................................................................5 1.8 Thesis Structure ........................................................................................6 2. System-of-Systems and their Socio-Technical Analysis ..................................9 2.1 Introduction...............................................................................................9 2.2 System-of-Systems ...................................................................................9 2.3 Paradigms for Representing and Analysing Socio-Technical Systems ..10 2.4 Modelling Abstractions for representing Socio-Technical Systems.......13 2.5 Comparative Analysis.............................................................................37 2.6 Chapter Summary ...................................................................................42 3. Research Methods ............................................................................................43 3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................43 3.2 Data Collection .......................................................................................43 3.3 Data Analysis ..........................................................................................47 3.4 Chapter Summary ...................................................................................54 4. A Modelling Abstraction for Socio-Technical Troubleshooting and Threat Analysis ................................................................................................................................55