Towards Standards-based Execution of System of Systems Models

Abstract

The ongoing transformation in the industry from a document-based systems engineering to a model-based systems engineering approach reveals a need for new methods of capturing and analyzing knowledge about the system. Moreover, complex real-life problems require the application of MBSE practices to enable evolving systems to communicate independently to achieve a common goal. This is the level of system of systems. At this level similar standardized model- based approaches are used to capture knowledge; however, most analysis is far from being standards based. Most of the tools provide proprietary approaches to analyze a system of systems. Is there a way to apply a standards-based approach to execute engineering analysis and behavioral simulation on a system of systems model? This paper describes the research used to answer this question.