Modeling and simulating software acquisition process architectures

S.James Choi, Walt Scacchi
2001 Journal of Systems and Software  
In this paper, we describe our eorts to support the modeling and simulation of processes associated with software system acquisition activities. Software acquisition is generally a multi-organization endeavor concerned with the funding, management, engineering, system integration, deployment and long-term support of large software systems. We ®rst describe our approach supporting the modeling and simulation of software acquisition processes using a software process architecture (SPA). We then
more » ... troduce how we support the distribution, concurrent execution and interoperation of multiple software process simulations using the high-level architecture (HLA) and run-time infrastructure (RTI) to address the complexity of software acquisition process architectures. To illustrate this, we provide examples from the design and prototyping of a Web-based environment that supports the modeling and simulation of acquisition process architectures. This environment thus serves as a new kind of software process test-bed that can demonstrate and support experiments incorporating multiple software process simulation systems that interoperate in a distributed and concurrent manner across a network. Ó
doi:10.1016/s0164-1212(01)00102-9 fatcat:5m5mb3rdzncwrjrvr3ypnkvneq