SASoS: supporting development of software architectures for software-intensive systems-of-systems

• Grant number: 14/02244-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal Investigator: Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
• Grantee: Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Flavio Oquendo ; Frank José Affonso ; Jó Ueyama ; Jose Carlos Maldonado ; Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello

Abstract

With the advance of computacional technologies and increasing in complexity and size of software systems, a new concept has emerged: Systems of Systems (SoS). This concept refers to software systems built from collaborative integration of operationally independent constituent systems. In this context, several critical embedded systems have been also developed as SoS, for instance, robotics systems and military systems. In another perspective, software architectures have a fundamental role to the development of software systems, mainly regarding to quality attributes, such as interoperability and evolvability. However, it is observed that most of SoS have been developed without attention to their software architectures, what can harm the quality attributes of these systems. Moreover, there is a lack of more consolidated approaches, including processes, methods, techniques and even tools, which support the development of SoS. In this scenario, the main goal of this project is to contribute to facilitate and systematize the building of SoS, focusing on software architectures. Specifically, this research project will propose a process containing methods, techniques, and supporting tools in order to systematize the design of SoS software architectures, more specifically, for critical embedded systems. Aiming at having evidences of the viability of our process, case studies, experiments, and/or surveys will be conducted, involving the design of SoS for two critical domain: robotics systems and flood monitoring systems. As results of this project, we intend to contribute to the Software Architecture, providing a means that supports the building of SoS software architectures. We also intend to contribute to the area of Embedded Systems, as this process could organize architectures of SoS of this area. Moreover, a more general result is to consolidate the research group in Software Architecture and Systems of Systems in ICMC/USP, as well as to promote and consolidate the research cooperation between ICMC/USP and Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires of Université de Bretagne Sud - IRISA/UBS. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

OLIVEIRA, LUCAS BUENO RUAS; LEROUX, ELENA; FELIZARDO, KATIA ROMERO; OQUENDO, FLAVIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. ArchSORS: A Software Process for Designing Software Architectures of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems. COMPUTER JOURNAL, v. 60, n. 9, p. 1363-1381, SEP 2017. (11/23316-8, 14/02244-7, 14/24734-6, 11/06022-0, 08/57870-9)

NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ALLIAN, ANA; OLIVEIRA, BRAUNER; SENA, BRUNO; PAES, CARLOS; LANA, CRISTIANE; FEITOSA, DANIEL; SANTOS, DANIEL; ZANIRO, DENIS; DIAS, DIOGENES; et al. Software Architecture and Reference Architecture of Software-intensive Systems and Systems-of-Systems: Contributions to the State of the Art. 2022 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (FUSION 2022), v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2017-01-01. (14/02244-7, 11/23316-8)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; GARCES, LINA; GUESSI, MILENA; PAES, CARLOS EDUARDO B.; MANZANO, WALLACE; OQUENDO, FLAVIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA; BUI, TX. ASAS: An Approach to Support Simulation of Smart Systems. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 51ST ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2018-01-01. (14/02244-7, 12/24290-5, 13/20317-9, 17/06195-9)

SENA, BRUNO; ALLIAN, ANA PAULA; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ACM. Characterizing Big Data Software Architectures: A Systematic Mapping Study. XI BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE COMPONENTS, ARCHITECTURES, AND REUSE (SBCARS 2017), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2017-01-01. (16/15634-3, 14/02244-7, 17/06195-9)

GARCES, LINA; AMPATZOGLOU, APOSTOLOS; AVGERIOU, PARIS; NAKAGAW, ELISA YUMI. Quality attributes and quality models for ambient assisted living software systems: A systematic mapping. INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, v. 82, p. 121-138, FEB 2017. (13/20317-9, 15/19192-2, 14/02244-7)

MANZANO, WALLACE; GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Dynamic-SoS: An Approach for the Simulation of Systems-of-Systems Dynamic Architectures. COMPUTER JOURNAL, v. 63, n. 5, p. 709-731, MAY 2020. (17/06195-9, 17/17448-5, 14/02244-7)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR V.; MANZANO, WALLACE; GARCES, LINA; GUESSI, MILENA; OLIVEIRA, BRAUNER; VOLPATO, TIAGO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. Back-SoS: Towards a Model-based Approach to Address Architectural Drift in Systems-of-Systems. 33RD ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, v. N/A, p. 3-pg., 2018-01-01. (17/15446-5, 17/17448-5, 14/02244-7, 12/24290-5, 13/20317-9, 17/06195-9)

GARCES, LINA; OQUENDO, FLAVIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. Towards a Taxonomy of Software Mediators for Systems-of-Systems. XII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE COMPONENTS, ARCHITECTURES, AND REUSE (SBCARS), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2018-01-01. (14/02244-7, 15/19192-2, 13/20317-9)