| Grant number: | 17/06195-9 |
| Support type: | Regular Research Grants |
| Duration: | July 01, 2017 - December 31, 2019 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques |
| Principal researcher: | Elisa Yumi Nakagawa |
| Grantee: | Elisa Yumi Nakagawa |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil |
| Assoc. 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)
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