A Study of Resilient Architecture for Critical Software-Intensive System-of-Systems (Sisos)

Abstract

The role of critical system-of-systems have become considerably software-intensive. A critical system-of-system has to satisfy correctness properties of liveness and safety. As critical system-of-systems have to operate in open environments in which they interact and collaborate with other systems, satisfy action of the requirements through traditional offline top-down engineering no longer suffice. Most of the critical software-intensive system-of-systems have no fixed boundaries and services provided by other systems will come and go in unpredictable ways; in these systems assuring correctness is a challenging issue. These systems need to tolerate faults in the face of change; they need a resilient architecture. An approach has been proposed for the analysis, design, formal specification and verification of critical Software-intensive System-of-Systems.