Young-Min Baek  Sumin Park  Yong-Jun Shin  Doo-Hwan Bae

10.5626/JOK.2018.45.10.1056

system-of-systems (SoS) meta-model software system modeling Ontology case study

Ontology is a formal and explicit specification technique that defines concepts and relationships of a system. It is utilized to establish a common knowledge base and to reduce mismatches or inconsistencies during communication. Since a System-of-Systems (SoS) is a large-scale complex system that achieves higher-level common goals by the collaboration of constituent systems, ontologies need to be established for overall SoS development and operations. In other words, refined development and communications among various stakeholders of an SoS can be achieved based on the conceptualization power of an ontology. However, in order to build an ontology effectively, SoS engineers require a systematic means to provide a guideline for domain analysis and ontology establishment. To fulfill these requirements, this study proposes a meta-model, called the Meta-model for System-of- Systems (M2SoS), which enables systematic specifications of ontologies for SoS development. M2SoS is developed based on existing studies on meta-modeling approaches in the multi-agent system domain, but M2SoS is improved to meet SoS-specific requirements by SoS case analysis.