RASoS: construction of reference architectures for systems-of-systems

• Grant number: 17/06195-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2019
• 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 ; Jose Carlos Maldonado ; Katia Romero Felizardo Scannavino ; Maria Istela Cagnin ; Pablo Oliveira Antonino de Assis ; Rafael Capilla

Abstract

Software architectures have had an essential role to the construction of high-quality software systems. In this scenario, reference architectures are a special type of software architecture that contains the knowledge of a given domain, promoting reuse of such knowledge to the development, evolution, and standardization of systems of that domain. A diversity of reference architectures has been proposed and more and more used. In parallel, a class of software systems called Systems-of-Systems (SoS) has arisen resulting from collaboration of constituent systems that have managerial and operational independence, besides being sometimes distributed. This collaboration makes possible SoS provide missions that could not be provided by any other constituents working separately. However, the building of SoS is a quite difficult task, mainly due to the diversity of constituent systems that usually compose such SoS. Hence, reference architecture could be established, containing information about how to make possible and facilitate interoperability among these constituents. The main goal of this research project is to contribute to development and evolution of SoS. For this, a process to build reference architectures for SoS will be established. To evaluate this process, analysis based on data gathering and qualitative analysis will be conduced. More specifically, surveys with specialists will be conducted intending to verify the relevance and adequacy of this process. To complement this evaluation and aiming to evaluate the viability of the process, two case studies will be conduced. The process will be applied to establish two reference architectures: one for crisis and emergence domain and another for ambient assisted living domain. As result of this project, we intend to contribute to the Software Engineering area, in particular, to Software Architecture providing a process to support the establishment of reference architectures for SoS and, as a consequence, that contributes to the SoS construction. (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)

SANTOS, DANIEL S.; OLIVEIRA, BRAUNER R. N.; KAZMAN, RICK; NAKAGAWA, ELISA Y.. Evaluation of Systems-of-Systems Software Architectures: State of the Art and Future Perspectives. ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS, v. 55, n. 4, p. 35-pg., 2023-05-01. (15/24144-7, 17/06195-9)

MUNIZ LEITE, ANA ISABELLA; LAGOA, LUCAS; LOPES, SAMUEL; BRAGA, ROSANA; ANTONINO, PABLO OLIVEIRA; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. n Investigation of Knowledge Gaps of Graduate Students Regarding Safety-Critical Systems Development: A Controlled Experimen. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION, v. 65, n. 1, JUL 2021. (17/06195-9, 15/24144-7)

DE BARROS PAES, CARLOS EDUARDO; GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; MOREIRA, THIAGO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Conceptualization of a System-of-Systems in the Defense Domain: An Experience Report in the Brazilian Scenario. IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, v. 13, n. 3, p. 2098-2107, SEP 2019. (17/06195-9)

LANA, CRISTIANE APARECIDA; GUESSI, MILENA; ANTONINO, PABLO OLIVEIRA; ROMBACH, DIETER; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. A Systematic Identification of Formal and Semi-Formal Languages and Techniques for Software-Intensive Systems-of-Systems Requirements Modeling. IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, v. 13, n. 3, p. 2201-2212, SEP 2019. (17/22107-2, 17/06195-9, 15/06195-3)

GARCES, LINA; MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ, SILVERIO; GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Architectural Solutions for Self-Adaptive Systems. COMPUTER, v. 53, n. 12, p. 47-59, DEC 2020. (18/07437-9, 17/06195-9)

AFFONSO, FRANK JOSE; PASSINI, WILLIAM FILISBINO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. A Reference Architecture to support the development of mobile applications based on self-adaptive services. PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING, v. 53, p. 33-48, FEB 2019. (17/06195-9)

ALLIAN, ANA PAULA; OLIVEIRAJR, EDSON; CAPILLA, RAFAEL; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Have Variability Tools Fulfilled the Needs of the Software Industry?. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, v. 26, n. 10, p. 1282-1311, 2020. (17/06195-9, 18/20882-1, 19/19730-5, 16/05919-0)

DIAS VALLE, PEDRO HENRIQUE; GARCES, LINA; VOLPATO, TIAGO; MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ, SILVERIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Towards suitable description of reference architectures. PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE, v. N/A, p. 36-pg., 2021-03-09. (17/22107-2, 17/06195-9, 18/07437-9, 15/24144-7)

ALLIAN, ANA PAULA; SCHNICKE, FRANK; ANTONINO, PABLO OLIVEIRA; ROMBACH, DIETER; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. rchitecture Drivers for Trustworthy Interoperability in Industry 4.. IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, v. 15, n. 4, p. 5454-5463, DEC 2021. (18/20882-1, 16/05919-0, 17/06195-9, 19/19730-5)

FERREIRA, FRANCISCO HENRIQUE CERDEIRA; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; DOS SANTOS, RODRIGO PEREIRA. Towards an understanding of reliability of software-intensive systems-of-systems. INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, v. 158, p. 17-pg., 2023-02-27. (15/24144-7, 17/06195-9)

ALLIAN, ANA PAULA; DUCHIEN, L; KOZIOLEK, A; MIRANDOLA, R; MARTINEZ, EMN; QUINTON, C; SCANDARIATO, R; SCANDURRA, P; TRUBIANI, C; WEYNS, D. Promoting Trust in Interoperability of Systems-of-Systems. 13TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE (ECSA 2019), VOL 2, v. N/A, p. 4-pg., 2019-01-01. (17/22237-3, 18/20882-1, 18/21517-5, 16/05919-0, 17/06195-9)

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)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR V.; MANZANO, WALLACE; ROHLING, ADAIR JOSE; VIEIRA FERREIRA, MAURICIO GONCALVES; VOLPATO, TIAGO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. Externalizing Patterns for Simulations in Software Engineering of Systems-of-Systems. 33RD ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2018-01-01. (17/17448-5, 16/16870-2, 17/06195-9)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR V.; HORITA, FLAVIO; CAVALCANTE, EVERTON; ROHLING, ADAIR; EL-HACHEM, JAMAL; SANTOS, DANIEL; NAKAGAWA, ELISA Y.; ACM. A Study on Goals Specification for Systems-of-Information Systems: Design Principles and a Conceptual Model. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SBSI2018), v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2018-01-01. (17/06195-9)

ALLIAN, ANA PAULA; SENA, BRUNO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. Evaluating variability at the software architecture level: An Overview. SAC '19: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 34TH ACM/SIGAPP SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2019-01-01. (16/15634-3, 17/22237-3, 18/20882-1, 16/05919-0, 17/06195-9)

VOLPATO, TIAGO; OLIVEIRA, BRAUNER R. N.; GARCES, LINA; CAPILLA, RAFAEL; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ACM. Two Perspectives on Reference Architecture Sustainability. 2022 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (FUSION 2022), v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2017-01-01. (13/20317-9, 16/16870-2, 17/06195-9)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; PAES, CARLOS EDUARDO; ROHLING, ADAIR JOSE; MANZANO, WALLACE; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; IEEE. MODELING & SIMULATION OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES OF SYSTEMS-OF-SYSTEMS : AN INDUSTRIAL REPORT ON THE BRAZILIAN SPACE SYSTEM. 2019 SPRING SIMULATION CONFERENCE (SPRINGSIM), v. N/A, p. 12-pg., 2019-01-01. (17/17448-5, 18/21517-5, 17/06195-9)

GARCES, LINA; VICENTE, ISABELLA ZANIN; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; IEEE. Software Architecture for Health Care Supportive Home Systems to Assist Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. 2019 IEEE 32ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS), v. N/A, p. 4-pg., 2019-01-01. (18/07437-9, 17/01672-3, 13/20317-9, 17/06195-9)

DIAS VALLE, PEDRO HENRIQUE; GARCES, LINA; VOLPATO, TIAGO; MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ, SILVERIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Towards suitable description of reference architectures. PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE, MAR 9 2021. (17/22107-2, 17/06195-9, 15/24144-7, 18/07437-9)

GUESSI, MILENA; OQUENDO, FLAVIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Ark: a constraint-based method for architectural synthesis of smart systems. Software and Systems Modeling, NOV 2019. (17/22107-2, 17/06195-9, 12/24290-5)

NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ANTONINO, PABLO OLIVEIRA; SCHNICKE, FRANK; KUHN, THOMAS; LIGGESMEYER, PETER. Continuous Systems and Software Engineering for Industry 4.0: A disruptive view. INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, v. 135, JUL 2021. (17/06195-9, 19/19730-5)

ROHLING, ADAIR JOSE; GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; VIEIRA FERREIRA, MAURICIO GONCALVES; DOS SANTOS, WALTER ABRAHAO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. A reference architecture for satellite control systems. INNOVATIONS IN SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, v. 15, n. 2, p. 139-153, JUN 2019. (17/06195-9)

VENTERS, COLIN C.; CAPILLA, RAFAEL; BETZ, STEFANIE; PENZENSTADLER, BIRGIT; CRICK, TOM; CROUCH, STEVE; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; BECKER, CHRISTOPH; CARRILLO, CARLOS. Software sustainability: Research and practice from a software architecture viewpoint. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE, v. 138, p. 174-188, APR 2018. (17/06195-9)

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)

GUESSI, MILENA; OQUENDO, FLAVIO; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Ark: a constraint-based method for architectural synthesis of smart systems. Software and Systems Modeling, v. 19, n. 3, p. 22-pg., 2019-11-01. (12/24290-5, 17/22107-2, 17/06195-9)

GARCES, LINA; MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ, SILVERIO; OLIVEIRA, LUCAS; VALLE, PEDRO; AYALA, CLAUDIA; FRANCH, XAVIER; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI. Three decades of software reference architectures: A systematic mapping study. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE, v. 179, SEP 2021. (18/07437-9, 17/06195-9)

VOLPATO, TIAGO; ALLIAN, ANA; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; DUCHIEN, L; KOZIOLEK, A; MIRANDOLA, R; MARTINEZ, EMN; QUINTON, C; SCANDARIATO, R; SCANDURRA, P; et al. Has social sustainability been addressed in software architectures?. 13TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE (ECSA 2019), VOL 2, v. N/A, p. 5-pg., 2019-01-01. (13/20317-9, 16/16870-2, 17/06195-9)

FERREIRA, FRANCISCO HENRIQUE; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; DOS SANTOS, RODRIGO PEREIRA; BALDASSARRE, MT; SCANNIELLO, G; SKAVHAUG, A. Reliability in Software-intensive Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Perspectives. 2021 47TH EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (SEAA 2021), v. N/A, p. 8-pg., 2021-01-01. (17/06195-9, 15/24144-7)

DIAS VALLE, PEDRO HENRIQUE; GARCES, LINA; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. A Typology of Architectural Strategies for Interoperability. SBCARS'19: PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE COMPONENTS, ARCHITECTURES, AND REUSE, v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2019-01-01. (18/07437-9, 17/06195-9)

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)

GRACIANO NETO, VALDEMAR VICENTE; MANZANO, WALLACE; KASSAB, MOHAMMAD; NAKAGAWA, ELISA YUMI; ASSOC COMP MACHINERY. Model-Based Engineering & Simulation of Software-Intensive Systems-of-Systems. ECSA 2018: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: COMPANION PROCEEDINGS, v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2018-01-01. (17/06195-9)