Towards a Multi-Viewpoints Approach for the SoS Engineering

Abstract

In recent years, the engineering of Systems-of-System (SoSs) has experienced an increasing evolution and interest from the computer science community. Additionally, Architecture Frameworks are a recent discipline in Software Engineering (SE) that consider Architectural Viewpoints as first-class entities in software development. The viewpoints have become a major paradigm that has the power to open a door to the development representation and provide a new way of designing systems. In this paper, we propose a viewpoints-based architecture framework model encompassing the concepts proposed by "ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 Systems and Software Engineering-Architecture description" to manage the complexity of SoSs' architectures. Consequently, we aim to represent by means one or more architectural viewpoints that together can provide a unified AF of SoS' architecture.