Introduction

Patterns for SoS reconfiguration

Related Works
Conclusion

Approach Based Patterns for

System-of-Systems Reconfiguration

F. Petitdemange1 I. Borne1 J. Buisson2

1 IRISA

University of South Brittany

Vannes, France
2 IRISA

Military Academy of St-Cyr

Vannes, France

Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems, 2015

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Plan

1 Introduction
SoS Engineering Process
SoSADL
Context

2 Patterns for SoS reconfiguration

Motivation
Approach

3 Related Works

4 Conclusion

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SoS Engineering Process
Patterns for SoS reconfiguration
SoSADL
Related Works
Context
Conclusion

SoS Engineering Process

Mission Abstract Arch. Concrete Arch.

raffined

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Architecture desciption language : SoSADL

Constituent System (CS) : have their own managerial and

operational independance while contributing to the
global mission of the SoS
Mediator : controled by the SoS. They belong to the SoS.
Mediateur are communicating element that
specify, coordinate the interaction beetween CSs
and SoS control over them.
Coalition : a set of contraints about the CSs and mediator
required to accomplish a emergent behavior.

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Emergency service SoS

Mission : preserve human life and material

system
office

system system
coalition mediator
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Need of architectural reconfiguration

Cause :
managerial and operational independance of the
constituents
Consequence :
architecture evolve continuesly
Problems :
determine a set of reconfiguration’ operations to maintain
architectural pattern in the concrete architecture ?
determine a set of reconfiguration’ operations to make
evolve the architectural pattern in a coherently way ?

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Architectural pattern

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Maintain architectural patterns

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Architectural pattern evolutions

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Patterns for reconfiguration

Approach :
use pattern approach to formalize a set of best practice to
assist reconfiguration

based on dedicaded language (SoSADL), describe SoS

architecture pattern architectural taking into account SoS
characteristics
express a set of reconfiguration operations associate to
this architectural pattern which can express for
instance :when, how, for which to add a new CS.

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Challenges

the choice of reconfiguration’ operations in order to

instanciate or reinstanciate the architectural pattern

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Challenge and Futur Work

Challenge :

Futur Work :

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