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1.4.2 Synthesizing and Specifying Architectures for System of Systems
Author(s) -
Kenley C. Robert,
Dannenhoffer Timothy M.,
Wood Paul C.,
DeLaurentis Daniel A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2014.tb03137.x
Subject(s) - executable , computer science , process (computing) , context (archaeology) , systems engineering , software engineering , distributed computing , programming language , engineering , paleontology , biology
Based on our experience with defining and evaluating system of systems and architectures using agent‐based modeling, we describe the steps that we have employed in the context of a well‐known process for defining system architectures and identify which steps of the process capture the unique characteristics of a system of systems. We describe a particular method that we developed to automate the generation of the communications links needed for executable simulation models when evaluating a large architectural design space, and we review model‐based systems engineering methods that are applicable to specifying systems of systems and that support developing executable agent‐based simulation models.