Impacts on High-level Systems-of-Systems Figures of Merit due to Integrated Architecture Sizing and Technology Evaluation at the Subsystem-Level

Abstract: Understanding the impacts on high-level system-of-systems (SOS) figures of merit (FOMs) due to the design of architectures and technologies is critical in providing decision makers sufficient information in selecting suitable alternatives in an effort to reduce costly financial and schedule overruns. Several techniques exist within academia and industry for performing SOS architecture design and technology evaluation. However, these techniques fail to solve the problem in an integrated fashio…