Technical - Systems Architectures Topic Group
Overview
The NECTISE Systems Architectures Topic group was led by Prof Jie Xu and involved School of Computing, University of Leeds with Shrivenham Defence Academy, Cranfield University and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University.
Practical evidence shows that systems architectures are the most important factor that affects both a system’s functionality as well as its non-functional aspects, such as scalability, flexibility and dependability. The objective of the group was to develop and evaluate a critical set of architectural representations of systems of systems, from different perspectives, at different levels of abstraction that provided appropriate support for NEC and through-life system evolution.
The Systems Architectures Topic group investigated:
- Service-oriented architecture and novel architectures for the integration of systems in a dynamic military environment and in the delivery of NEC;
- Architecture frameworks to capture and describe systems integration for through-life capability, in design, acquisition and mission planning;
- Evolution of architectures in the design of dependable evolution and managing changes during service;
- Evaluation of architectures, researching methods of assessment towards a framework for evaluating capability during design, acquisition and in-service use for dynamic integration.
