Modeling & Simulation of Software Architectures of Systems-of-Systems : An Industrial Report on the Brazilian Space System
Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto, Carlos Eduardo de Barros Paes, Adair José Rohling, Wallace Manzano, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa · 2019
Systems-of-Systems (SoS) have demanded for novel solutions to deal with their large-scale, dynamic, and critical nature. Then, software engineering and simulation communities have been motivated to develop solutions to engineering such systems. In this direction, this paper presents an industrial experience report of a modeling and simulation (M&S) of a Space SoS, which was conceived in the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and is composed of multiple satellites, data collection platforms, and information systems. We used MS4ME platform and enriched it with a model transformation approach (from a formal architectural descrition to DEVS models). We hope this paper can foster discussions towards unification of efforts from both communities.