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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Richard Payne, Dr Jeremy Bryans, Professor John Fitzgerald, Dr Stephen RiddleORCiD
Establishing that a system-of-systems (SoS) architecture respects global SoS-level properties is complex. Recording explicit technical interfaces at the boundaries of constituent systems would facilitate this, but support for the description of such interfaces is limited in current widely-used architectural notations. This paper identifies research challenges that arise from using the combination of SysML and the formal notation VDM to describe the interface specifications recorded at the boundaries of the constituent systems. The approach is illustrated with a case study based on an emergency services SoS.
Author(s): Payne R, Bryans J, Fitzgerald J, Riddle S
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2012
Pages: 26
Print publication date: 01/05/2012
Source Publication Date: May 2012
Report Number: 1335
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1335.pdf