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Systems-of-systems (SoS) are a particular class of systems that are composed of geographically distributed and heterogeneous constituents. Usually, SoS are dynamically built and recruit their constituents at runtime, and they are built following an evolutionary development process. In order to achieve its global goal, an SoS needs to reconfigure according to the evolutions of its environment or the commitment or disengagement of its constituents. We propose to deal with SoS reconfiguration at its architectural level, and in the case of an architecture based on architectural patterns. Our purpose is to define reconfiguration patterns which describe the operations allowing to maintain the SoS in a consistent state, with regard to the architectural patterns. We present the first step of our work devoted to model reconfiguration examples extracted from a real case, using the concepts of an SoS architecture description language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]