What Can Requirements Engineering Do for Emerging System of Systems? Case of Smart Local Energy

As software solutions permeate the whole spectrum of human activities, many software systems previously developed to address specific issues suddenly find themselves becoming parts of interlinked and inter-dependent complex systems. This paper discusses a case study of such emergent convergence of software-rich socio-technical systems into an interconnected and integrated energy system-of-systems and outlines some areas where the Requirements Engineering discipline can help guide such a transition.