A Service-Oriented Method for System-of-Systems Requirements Analysis and Architecture Design

Abstract

Nowadays various problems, including the rapid growth of complexity, continually changing requirements and the alignment of IT with business strategy, challenge traditional design principles in analyzing System-of-systems (SoS), while Service-Oriented Computing offers a flexible integration architecture to meet the dynamic requirements of SoS. This paper introduce a service-oriented modeling method for SoS requirements analysis based on a three-tier framework with multi-ontologies. The method provides a reusable and flexible solution for SoS requirements modeling and enable the high level requirements description of System-of-Systems can be mapped to service-oriented system design architecture directly. A case study is given to demonstrate the applicability of the method.