“…Managed evolution has been originally suggested in the context of large, long-term operational software systems that also show many similarities with CPSoSs (complex functional, semantical, temporal, technical, and operational interdependencies of interacting systems with non-trivially replaceable legacy subsystems). In collaborative SoSs, managed evolution must be planned and supervised by an SoS authority, i.e., an organizational entity (for example established by a CPSoS consortium or enterprise), such that "the efficiency of developing and operating the system is preserved or even increased" [32]. The SoS authority has a specific CPSoS purpose in mind, maintains the specifications of Relied Upon Interfaces (RUIs), and has a set of capabilities in order to manage CPSoS evolution.…”