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A systematic literature review on the description of software architectures for systems of systems

Authors:

Valdemar V. G. Neto,

Thiago Bianchi,

Katia R. Felizardo,

Flavio Oquendo,

Elisa Y. NakagawaAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1433 - 1440

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2695795

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Software architectures have been recognized as the backbone to the success of any software system. In addition, they are responsible to aggregate quality attributes, such as interoperability, dependability, and maintainability, to these systems. In parallel, currently, a new class of complex software systems has emerged, referred as Systems of Systems (SoS), resulting from a number of operationally and managerially independent software systems working together to fulfill a mission that none system alone could provide. Considering their complexity, the development of SoS has demanded special attention to their software architectures. In this scenario, the description of such architectures, i.e., the way that these architectures are represented/documented, becomes quite important as it can improve communication as well as evaluation and maintenance of these architectures. Despite its relevance, there is still no complete panorama about architectural descriptions of SoS. The main contribution of this paper is to present results of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on how SoS software architectures have been described. As main result, there are already important contributions in that direction; however, there is a lack of consensus on how better dealing with these descriptions. We conclude this paper with directions on how a consensus could be achieved and which aspects of the SoS architectural descriptions require further investigation.

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A systematic literature review on the description of software architectures for systems of systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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