A perspective on decision-making research in system of systems context

`System of systems (SoS)' is a special kind of system that appears more and more in many application domains. It has spawned active research across many technical domains and perspectives. One aspect of this research that has perhaps received less attention is the role of decision-making models to capture the essential collaborative nature of SoS. In this paper, we summarize a subset of the approaches presented on this topic in an effort to subsequently identify critical areas that remain in need of further work to improve the effectiveness of the models. We identify and briefly describe key areas and discuss concept applications in these areas. A link between models used in the design/planning stages and operations/control stage is found to be an especially useful endeavor and we recommend it to the research community.