A model-driven approach for configuring and deploying Systems of Systems

Configuration and deployment of systems for defense and air traffic control is often a complex task because a System of Systems (SoS) is always distributed on different geographic areas, composed by hundreds of components (e.g. applications, processes, services, hosts), running under multiple hardware constraints, on different resources, and subject to mission critical requirements. The configuration of such SoS or a part of it, involves the production of many configuration files describing the structure of the SoS in general, the configuration parameters of each component, and how each component has to interact with the others. Due to the considerable size and complexity of the configuration files (i.e. hundreds of lines of code), the adoption of a manual approach is clearly error prone. This work presents a model-driven approach for supporting the configuration of mission-critical SoS or part of it.