Greg Goth. "Ultralarge Systems: Redefining Software Engineering?" IEEE Software,  May 2008.

Gabriel, Richard P. Design Beyond Human Abilities

Goodenough, John. ULS Systems Research Roadmap. June 2007. 

Kazman, Rick. The Metropolis Model: A New Logic for Development of Crowdsourced Systems. Communications of the ACM, 52, 7 (July 2009).

news@sei Feature, Issue 3, 2008: SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum: “Scale Changes Everything”

news@sei Feature, Issue 6, 2006: Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems Roundtable

news@sei Feature, 4th quarter 2005: Meeting the Challenge of Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems

Northrop, Linda. Scale Changes Everything, OOPSLA 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA, October 22-26, 2006.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time & Embedded Systems with QoS-Enabled Middleware & Model-Driven Engineering. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, California, USA, December 10, 2007.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), Santorini Island, Greece, May 7-9, 2007.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems via Model-Driven Engineering
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, February 2, 2007.

Sullivan, Kevin.Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems (CBSE 2009)
keynote, 12th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2009), June 24-26, 2009.

Workshop & Conference Proceedings

SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum: “Scale Changes Everything,” March 6, 2008, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

First ICSE Workshop on Software Technologies for Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems: Workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 22, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

• Baillargeon, Robert. Vehicle System Development: A Challenge of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
• Gabriel, Richard P. Can't Be Built
• Johnson, Philip M. Ultra-Automation and Ultra-Autonomy for Software Engineering Management of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
• McKinley, Philip K.; Cheng, Betty H. C.; & Ofria, Charles A. Applying Digital Evolution to the Development of Self-Adaptive ULS Systems
• Paulish, Daniel J. Scalable Distributed Organizations for Ultra-Large-Scale Software
• Sullivan, Kevin. Edge Programming
• Zhu, Liming; Staples, Mark; & Jeffery, Ross. Reference Architecture for Lending Industry in ULS Systems

Companion to the 21th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2006, October 22-26, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA. ACM 2006, ISBN 1-59593-491-X  (Workshop: Ultra-Large-Scale Systems).

The ULS Systems Report

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future
ISBN 0-9786956-0-7
July 2006

Podcast

Northrop, Linda; Schmidt, Doug; Sullivan, Kevin; & Kiczales, Gregor. Round Table on Ultra-Large-Scale Systems. Podcast recorded at OOPSLA 2006, February 6, 2007.

Related Work

Center for Ultra-Large-Scale Software-Intensive Systems

Recommended Reading

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Axelrod, Robert. The Complexity of Cooperation. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Baldwin, Carliss & Clark, Kim. Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. MIT Press, 2000.

Baldwin, Carliss; Clark, Kim B.; Magretta, Joan; & Dyer, Jeffrey H. Harvard Business Review on Managing the Value Chain. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means. Perseus Books Group, 2002.

Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Dorigo, Marco & Stutzle, Thomas. Ant Colony Optimization. MIT Press, 2004.

Flake, Gary William. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation. MIT Press, 1998.

Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Holland, John H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Basic Books, 1995.

Huberman, Bernardo. The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information. MIT Press, 2001.

Hutchins, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, 1995.

Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lewin, Roger. Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Basic Books, 2002.

Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View. Currency Doubleday, 1996.

Strogatz, Steven. SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Hyperion, 2003.

Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Wright, Robert. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Vintage, 2001.

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