TABLE OF CONTENTS A top level overview of the book chapters is presented below. Each chapter name is followed by key concepts in the chapter.
| Chapter 1 : | Opportunities and Challenges for Systems Engineering Complex systems, scaling, need for foundation |
| Chapter 2 : | Systems Science Context SE science disciplines supporting SE, systems taxonomy |
| Chapter 3 : | Core Concepts of Model-Oriented SE Science (MOSES) System, model, correspondence, connection ontology, specification |
| Chapter 4 : | Features of MOSES Model orientation, model space; modularity/decoupling |
| Chapter 5 : | SE Model Space Context, requirements, design, implementation of model space, 4+1 dimensions |
| Chapter 6 : | Composition Wholes and parts, holarchy, intertwining of internal and external views |
| Chapter 7 : | Commonization Similarities and differences, categories and kinds, leverage, body of knowledge |
| Chapter 8 : | Conceptualization Language, ontology, representation, semantics, SE language group |
| Chapter 9 : | Time Change and stability, models of change, three levels of change |
| Chapter 10 : | Views Cross-cutting, free-form, architecture related, duality, view categories |
| Chapter 11 : | Specification Information Internal, external, and interface content, probabilistic, fuzzy |
| Chapter 12 : | Mapping and Unification Mapping models to traditional artifacts, unification features |
| Chapter 13 : | SE Actualization Processes Traditional, CSE, modeling, and actualization processes |
