System of systems vulnerability analysis with automated planning

Vulnerability analysis for military system of systems is an emerging field. The damage effect relies heavily on human cognition activities and counter measures. We chose mission completion as the measure of damage effect, established an analogy between vulnerability analysis and planning and applied automated planning to reason about reachability of mission goals and possible operations. A modified graph planning algorithm was developed to find all possible operations of military system of systems. Test on the sample scenario proved the feasibility of this method.