1.4.2 Synthesizing and Specifying Architectures for System of Systems

Abstract

Abstract 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.