J. Bankauskaitė “Unified architecture framework-based trade study method for system architectures in model-based system of systems engineering” doctoral dissertation defense

Author, Institution: Jovita Bankauskaitė, Kaunas University of Technology

Science area, field of science: Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007

Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rimantas Butleris (Kaunas University of Technology, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007)

Dissertation Defence Board of Informatics Engineering Science Field:
Prof. Dr. Tomas Blažauskas (Kaunas University of Technology, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007) – chairperson
Prof. Hab. Dr. Gintautas Dzemyda  (Vilnius University, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007)
Prof. Dr. Arnas Kačeniauskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007)
Prof. Dr. Diana Kalibaitienė (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007)
Prof. Dr. Raimundas Matulevičius (Tartu University, Estonia, Technological Sciences, Informatics Engineering, T007)

The dissertation defence will be at the Meeting room at Santaka Valley of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Baršausko 59 – A228, Kaunas)

The doctoral dissertation is available on the internet and at the library of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio g. 20, Kaunas)

Annotation: Trade studies have become an indispensable engineering activity and are often used in the early stages of system architecture development. A trade study evaluates alternatives based on criteria and systematic analysis so that to select the most balanced alternative to attain the desired objectives. In the cyber-physical systems or system of systems (SoS) design, a trade study is often a highly complex, time-consuming, and expensive activity requiring extensive resources and broad knowledge. In the dissertation the architecture descriptive frameworks, trade study processes and architecture evaluation methods are reviewed, by focusing on their application for trade study with the ability to automate the evaluation of SoS architectures.

Furthermore, dissertation introduces and presents the UT3SA method, which provides the required process, guidelines, evaluation algorithms, and measurements to increase the quality of a trade study by reducing errors in evaluating alternative SoS architectures.