Functionality evaluation of system of systems architecture based on extended influence diagrams

doi:10.21629/JSEE.2018.03.08

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2018, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (3): 510-518.doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.03.08

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Functionality evaluation of system of systems architecture based on extended influence diagrams

Mengmeng ZHANG*(), Honghui CHEN(), Xiaoxue ZHANG(), Aimin LUO(), Junxian LIU()

Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410072, China

Received:2013-11-22 Online:2018-06-28 Published:2018-07-02
Contact: Mengmeng ZHANG E-mail:18670381635@163.com;chh0808@gmail.com;snow1126@126.com;amluo@nudt.edu.cn;18674864900@163.com
About author:ZHANG Mengmeng was born in 1990. He received his M.S. degree in management science and technology from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, in 2011. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the School of Information System and Management at NUDT. His research interests are information system architecture design, analysis and validation. E-mail: 18670381635@163.com|CHEN Honghui was born in 1969. He received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from NUDT. He is a professor and the executive vice director of Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory in NUDT now. His current research interests include requirement engineering, military information system, enterprise architecture design and analysis. E-mail: chh0808@gmail.com|ZHANG Xiaoxue was born in 1986. She received her M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from NUDT. She is a teacher in NUDT now. Her current research interests include requirement engineering, military information system, enterprise architecture design and analysis. E-mail: snow1126@126.com|LUO Aimin was born in 1971. She received her M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from NUDT. She is a professor in NUDT now. Her current research interests include requirement engineering, military information system, enterprise architecture design and analysis. E-mail: amluo@nudt.edu.cn|LIU Junxian was born in 1973. He received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from NUDT. He is a professor in NUDT now. His current research interests include requirement engineering, military information system, enterprise architecture design and analysis. E-mail: 18674864900@163.com
Supported by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71571189);This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71571189)

Abstract

Abstract:

System of systems architecture (SoSA) has received increasing emphasis by scholars since Zachman ignited its flame in 1987. Given its complexity and abstractness, it is critical to validate and evaluate SoSA to ensure requirements have been met. Multiple qualities are discussed in the literature of SoSA evaluation, while research on functionality is scarce. In order to assess SoSA functionality, an extended influence diagram (EID) is developed in this paper. Meanwhile, a simulation method is proposed to elicit the conditional probabilities in EID through designing and executing SoSA. An illustrative anti-missile architecture case is introduced for EID development, architecture design, and simulation.

Key words: system of systems architecture (SoSA), functionality evaluation, extended influence diagram (EID), anti-missile architecture, simulation

Mengmeng ZHANG, Honghui CHEN, Xiaoxue ZHANG, Aimin LUO, Junxian LIU. Functionality evaluation of system of systems architecture based on extended influence diagrams[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2018, 29(3): 510-518.

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Typical SoSA evaluation studies"

Example	Description	Approach	Indicator
Joachim Schelp(2007) ^[29]	A framework to identify and quantify the valueof architecture was proposed.	Balanced Scorecard	Value
Johan Ullberg(2008) ^[12]	Enterprise service interoperability analysis wasconducted with a framework and metamodel.	EID	Interoperability
Stephan Aier (2009) ^[13]	Survival abilities of SoSA models were analyzed and suggestions for model adoption were proposed.	Life table mode	Maintainability
Mahsa Razavi (2009) ^[15]	An integrated fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was proposed for multi-attributes analysis.	Fuzzy AHP	Multi-attributes (e.g., maintainability)
Teodor Sommestad (2009) ^[23]	The cyber security risk provided by different architectural scenarios was analyzed.	EID	Security risk
Ulrik Franke (2009) ^[16]	A method was provided for how architecture models can be depended with each other.	Fault trees, Bayesian networks	Dependency
Robert Lagerstrom (2010) ^[14]	An instantiated architectural model was presented for enterprise systems modifiability analysis.	EID	Modifiability
Per Närman (2011) ^[25]	Data accuracy analysis was conducted with Archimate language and formalism models.	}Probabilistic relational models	Data accuracy
Per Närman (2014) ^[30]	A framework was presented based on the Archimate metamodel for architecture assessment.	Meta-model&	Application usage, system availability, service response time, data accuracy
Ulrik Franke (2014) ^[26]	An integrated enterprise architecture framework was proposed for assessing service availability.	Meta-model	Availability
Rainer Schmidt (2014) ^[31]	A special suited maturity framework of architecture management was introduced.	Meta-model	Utility
Matthias Lange (2016) ^[32]	Architecture management success factors were identified and a theoretical model was proposed for measuring management success.	Questionnaire	Management success

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