Abstract

Negotiation and collaboration issues in large organizations, with centralized control, across the globe, are becoming more complex with each passing day. The Acknowledged System of Systems (SoS) is a new approach that addresses some of these issues in a systematic, efficient manner. This paper proposes a hierarchical architectural framework to support Acknowledged SoS architecting and analysis for a Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition process. A major challenge of the successful planning and evolution of an Acknowledged SoS is the lack of understanding of the impact of presence or absence of a system and its interface with another constituent system on the overall architecture. The agent-based model (ABM) structure developed here provides Acknowledged SoS manager that has both abilities to address the managerial issues as well as a decision-making tool for SoS architecting. This paper offers a complete integration of the techniques used to represent SoS architectures. The work illustrates the modeling approach through a domain setting. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Publication Status

Open Access

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U.S. Department of Defense, Grant None

Keywords and Phrases

Acknowledged SoS; Agent; Archietcture; Negotiation

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1877-0509

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Final Version

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 Elsevier, All rights reserved.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2014

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