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A Model Framework for Determining Dynamic Architecture Goals in a Systems-of-Systems

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Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research

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This paper presents results from a prototype modeling methodology, part of a PhD project intending to create an integrated model framework relating societal modeling techniques to system-of-systems (SoS) architecture models and design. This framework uses matrix-based and system dynamics (SD) models to relate product system functions to associated systems and to societal dynamics step-by-step, in order to synthesize justified design priorities for a new product platform. In this manner, function importance weights or goal prioritization for a new product are obtained from societal models and scenarios. These weights are highly dependent on outside (SoS) functions, vary in time, and depend on the risk attitude of the project. In future work, this framework will be applied to modularization and architecture design and evaluated by a case study in the aerospace industry, where a space system manufacturer is considering designing new satellite product lines.

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  1. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Marc-Andre Chavy-Macdonald, Kazuya Oizumi & Kazuhiro Aoyama

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  1. Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Azad M. Madni

  2. Center for Systems and Software Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Barry Boehm

  3. Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Roger G. Ghanem

  4. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Daniel Erwin

  5. Systems Engineering Fellow, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, USA

    Marilee J. Wheaton

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Chavy-Macdonald, MA., Oizumi, K., Aoyama, K. (2018). A Model Framework for Determining Dynamic Architecture Goals in a Systems-of-Systems. In: Madni, A., Boehm, B., Ghanem, R., Erwin, D., Wheaton, M. (eds) Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_17

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