An active service architecture called AAS (active service based on acquaintances) for intelligent manufacturing environments was proposed. The proposed architecture exploits stable relation and resourceful nodes, called acquaintances, which perform active services in the manufacturing network. The AAS architecture recognizes node heterogeneity in terms of mobility and capability. We analyze the characteristics of AAS architecture and operations for optimal system performance. By showing that AAS outperforms broadcast-based solutions in manufacturing environments, we validate that AAS is a flexible and adaptable architecture appropriate for dynamic manufacturing environments.
Abstract-As the emergence of the Net-Centric Warfare (NCW), the military information system has been evolved from platform-centric to be net-centric, which brings great challenges for System of Systems (SoS) engineering in the net centric environment. A major task of system engineering is to build system architecture. Although classical system engineering deals very well with architecting problems for a single system in which user requirements are well defined, it has no good solutions for SoS architecting problems. In this paper, existing architecture development methods are briefly reviewed, and a novel capability-based method (CBM) for architecture design is proposed, which not only enables SoS architecting with the new kind of capability-based development process, but also ensures consistency to form integrated architectures.Index Terms-System of systems (SoS) engineering, architecture design, NCW.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.