A Mission-Oriented Tool for System-of-Systems Modeling

Missions represent an essential information in the system-of-systems (SoS) context. A mission-based approach for specifying SoS involves the definition of the missions, the capabilities of the constituent systems required to accomplish such missions, and the interactions among these systems. Due to the fundamental role played by missions in the SoS context, such an approach could support the description of an SoS even when information related to implementation is not available. Nevertheless, despite the importance of representing mission-related information, the literature does not report specific languages, models, or tools that together enable to describe missions in the SoS context. This work presents mKAOS Studio, an open-source tool for modeling SoS missions using the mKAOS language. In this paper, we illustrate the use of mKAOS Studio with a flood monitoring SoS based on existing systems to predict and monitor floods in risky areas.