Abstract:

Aiming at a type of integrated system combined with numerous component systems, which known as a system of systems (SoS), and the specification of department of defense architecture framework (DoDAF), a five-stage iterative designing approach of operational view (OV) products for SoS architecture is developed, which takes the object-oriented idea as its basis. Making full use of the static and dynamic characteristics of UML modeling mechanism, the top-down and bottom-up design methods are used in combination to achieve the objectoriented description of SoS architecture which is compliant with DoDAF. The object-oriented approach combined with the DoDAF specification makes the design of SoS architecture be superior in two aspects: horizontal cross-universality and vertical reusability, which makes the architecture flexible and is not achievable by traditional methods. A brief example of tactical missile defense (TMD) system is given to illustrate the object-oriented design process for the DoDAF OV products of SoS architecture.