A framework for evaluating mission-oriented SoSs architectures

Abstract

System of systems (SoS) encompasses a group of independent and distributed systems which through synergism between them, work together towards a common mission. SoS’s mission is achieved through the integration of independent CSs, which make architectural challenges for satisfying mission performance important issues. There is a need to understand how different potential architectures might improve mission performance, and to provide the means to choose between different architectural solutions. The aim of this work is to address these challenges and to propose a framework for the evaluation of SoSs architecture. First, we proposed a conceptual model that highlights the different evaluation metrics for SoS mission. Second, we model a part of emergency response SoS using the System Modeling Language(SysML), and shows in the implementation how to evaluate the different SoSs architectures. Keywords: System of Systems(SoSs), mission, architecture, System Modeling Language(SysML).