Title
System of Systems Engineering: Meta-Modelling Perspective
Abstract
Systems-of-Systems (SoS) have emerged as a special type of large-scale complex systems and have been widely used in various fields. An SoS is a result of the integration of a number of pre-existing, independent complex software systems called Constituent Systems (CS). During the SoS Engineering process, the specific characteristics of CSs such as the operational and managerial independence, distribution and the emergent behaviour make the modelling of their structure, relationships and interactions a complex task.On the other hand, Model-Driven-Architecture (MDA) is still one of the most promising software architecture approaches, it provides a method which simplifies SoSs complexity by increasing their abstraction level. The aim of this study is to introduce a software description meta-model that can be used for modelling SoSs. The meta-model highlights the importance of Goals, Roles, Capabilities and CSs concepts for SoS design. These concepts will be translated into an abstract architecture where their composition and relationships are well-defined. The main contributions of this paper are: (1) a Meta-Model for System-of-systems called MeMSoS, (2) its supporting tool and (3) an illustrative case study of an Aircraft-Emergency-Response-SoS (AERSoS).
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/SoSE50414.2020.9130465
2020 IEEE 15th International Conference of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Modelling,SoS,CS,SoSE,MDE,MDA,Metamodel.
Conference
978-1-7281-8050-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Charaf Eddine Dridi110.37
Zakaria Benzadri2123.07
Faiza Belala34620.89