Abstract
Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural style that is
being adopted by many of the major military organisations
such as the United States Department of Defense, The North
Alliance Treaty Organization and the UK's Ministry of
Defence, as a means to realise increased agility and reduced
long term cost of ownership. SOA has emerged and matured
predominately within the commercial sectors and as well as
maturing further to overcome current challenges in these
sectors, must address specific challenges when employed in a
military context. This paper provides an introduction to the
topic and identifies the issues and a potential methodology by
which safety arguments can be constructed, based on
experience from the military aviation domain. This is
proposed as a means to support the flexible compositional
characteristics of SOA whilst facilitating the Safety
Certification and Accreditation of SOA-style systems and
‘systems of systems’.
being adopted by many of the major military organisations
such as the United States Department of Defense, The North
Alliance Treaty Organization and the UK's Ministry of
Defence, as a means to realise increased agility and reduced
long term cost of ownership. SOA has emerged and matured
predominately within the commercial sectors and as well as
maturing further to overcome current challenges in these
sectors, must address specific challenges when employed in a
military context. This paper provides an introduction to the
topic and identifies the issues and a potential methodology by
which safety arguments can be constructed, based on
experience from the military aviation domain. This is
proposed as a means to support the flexible compositional
characteristics of SOA whilst facilitating the Safety
Certification and Accreditation of SOA-style systems and
‘systems of systems’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th IET International Conference on System Safety |
| Publisher | Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-84919-303-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |