In areas such as military‎,‎ security‎,‎ aerospace‎,‎ and disaster management‎,‎ the need for performance optimization and interoperability among heterogeneous systems is increasingly important‎.‎ Model‎-driven engineering‎,‎ a paradigm in which the model becomes the actual software‎,‎ offers a promising approach toward systems of systems ‎(‎SoS‎)‎ engineering‎.‎ However‎,‎ model‎-driven engineering has largely been unachieved in complex dynamical systems and netcentric SoS‎,‎ partly because modeling and simulation ‎(‎M&S‎)‎ frameworks are stove‎-piped and not designed for SoS composability‎.‎ Addressing this gap‎,‎ Netcentric System of Systems Engineering with DEVS Unified Process presents a methodology for realizing the model‎-driven engineering vision and netcentric SoS using DEVS Unified Process ‎(‎DUNIP‎)‎‎.‎ The authors draw on their experience with Discrete Event Systems Specification ‎(‎DEVS‎)‎ formalism‎,‎ System Entity Structure ‎(‎SES‎)‎ theory‎,‎ and applying model‎-driven engineering in the context of a netcentric SoS‎.‎ They describe formal model‎-driven engineering methods for netcentric M&S using standards‎-based approaches to develop and test complex dynamic models with DUNIP‎.‎The book is organized into five sections‎:‎ *Section I introduces undergraduate students and novices to the world of DEVS‎.‎ It covers systems and SoS M&S as well as DEVS formalism‎,‎ software‎,‎ modeling language‎,‎ and DUNIP‎.‎ It also assesses DUNIP with the requirements of the Department of Defense‎'‎s ‎(‎DoD‎)‎ Open Unified Technical Framework ‎(‎OpenUTF‎)‎ for netcentric Test and Evaluation ‎(‎T&E‎)‎‎.‎ *Section II delves into M&S‎-based systems engineering for graduate students‎,‎ advanced practitioners‎,‎ and industry professionals‎.‎ It provides methodologies to apply M&S principles to SoS design and reviews the development of executable architectures based on a framework such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework ‎(‎DoDAF‎)‎‎.‎ It also describes an approach for building netcentric knowledge‎-based contingency‎-driven systems‎.‎ *Section III guides graduate students‎,‎ advanced DEVS users‎,‎ and industry professionals who are interested in building DEVS virtual machines and netcentric SoS‎.‎ It discusses modeling standardization‎,‎ the deployment of models and simulators in a netcentric environment‎,‎ event‎-driven architectures‎,‎ and more‎.‎*Section IV explores real‎-world case studies that realize many of the concepts defined in the previous chapters‎.‎ *Section V outlines the next steps and looks at how the modeling of netcentric complex adaptive systems can be attempted using DEVS concepts‎.‎ It touches on the boundaries of DEVS formalism and the future work needed to utilize advanced concepts like weak and strong emergence‎,‎ self‎-organization‎,‎ scale‎-free systems‎,‎ run‎-time modularity‎,‎ and event interoperability‎.‎ This groundbreaking work details how DUNIP offers a well‎-structured‎,‎ platform‎-independent methodology for the modeling and simulation of netcentric system of systems‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Saurabh Mittal‎,‎ Jose L‎.‎ Risco Martin
• Publisher‎:‎ Taylor & Francis
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781439827062