AMADEOS SysML Profile for SoS Conceptual Modeling

In the European Union FP7-610535-AMADEOS project, a conceptual model for Systems of Systems (SoSs) has been conceived to find a common language allowing experts to collaborate on modelling, engineering, and analyzing SoSs (see public deliverable D2.3 “AMADEOS conceptual model - Revised” [1]). Analogously to the conceptual model for the architecture of software intensive systems, we separated the description of basics SoS concepts into different perspectives. These perspectives are called viewpoints, each of which is focused on different concerns of the SoS: structure, evolution, dynamicity, dependability, security, time, multi-criticality and emergence. In this chapter we will focus on the basic SoS concepts belonging to the different viewpoints and on their semantic relationships, and we will present a SysML profile to represent the conceptual model.