Towards Model Driven Architecture and Analysis of System of Systems Access Control

Nowadays there is growing awareness of the importanceof Systems of Systems (SoS) which are large-scalesystems composed of complex systems. SoS possess specificproperties when compared with monolithic complex systems, inparticular: operational independence, managerial independence,evolutionary development, emergent behavior and geographicdistribution. One of the current main challenges is the impact ofthese properties on SoS security modeling and analysis. In thisresearch proposal, we introduce a new method incorporating aprocess, a language and a software architectural tool to model,analyze and predict security architectural alternatives of SoS.Thus security will be taken into account as soon as possible inthe life cycle of the SoS, making it less expensive