The research initiative “self-improving system integration” (SISSY) was established with the goal to master the ever-changing demands of system organisation in the presence of autonomous subsystems, evolving architectures, and highly-dynamic open environments. It aims to move integration-related decisions from design-time to run-time, implying a further shift of expertise and responsibility from human engineers to autonomous systems. This introduces a qualitative shift from existing self-adaptive and self-organising systems, moving from self-adaptation based on predefined variation types, towards more open contexts involving novel autonomous subsystems, collaborative behaviours, and emerging goals.

In this article, we revisit existing SISSY research efforts and establish a corresponding terminology focusing on how SISSY relates to the broad field of integration sciences. We then investigate SISSY-related research efforts and derive a taxonomy of SISSY technology. This is concluded by establishing a research road-map for developing operational self-improving self-integrating systems.

建立了研究计划“自我完善的系统集成”（SISSY），其目的是在存在自治子系统，不断发展的体系结构和高度动态的开放环境的情况下，掌握系统组织不断变化的需求。它旨在将与集成相关的决策从设计时移至运行时，这意味着专业知识和职责将从人工工程师进一步转移到自治系统。这引入了从现有的自适应和自我组织系统的质变，从基于预定义变体类型的自适应过渡到涉及新型自主子系统，协作行为和新兴目标的更开放的环境。

在本文中，我们将回顾现有的SISSY研究成果，并建立一个相应的术语，重点关注SISSY如何与集成科学的广泛领域相关。然后，我们调查SISSY相关的研究工作，并得出SISSY技术的分类法。这是通过建立研究路线图来结束的，该路线图用于开发可操作的自我完善自我集成系统。