C4ISR Capability Analysis Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

The rapid growth of complexity accompanied with the continually changing requirements of C4ISR system makes it challenging to make C4ISR capability analysis by traditional design principles. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers a flexible approach to meet the dynamic military requirements of C4ISR systems due to its loosely coupling features, dynamic binding and independence of development technologies, platforms and organizations. This paper discusses the benefits from using SOA in the C4ISR capability analysis, and presents an iterative process for C4ISR capability analysis based on a multiple ontology system in order to support SOA repositories reuse.