Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (12): 3901-3911.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.12.16

• Model-Based System Architecture Design and Verification • Previous Articles    

Research on modeling and simulation evaluation method of system-of-systems network dynamics

Xiaobo LI1, Zhijie HUANG1,*(), Chenglong ZHANG2, Jie ZHANG1, Tao WANG1, Tian JING1   

  1. 1. College of Systems Engineering,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
    2. Beijing Institute of Electronic System Engineering,Beijing 100854,China
  • Received:2025-03-14 Revised:2025-06-30 Online:2025-09-29 Published:2025-09-29
  • Contact: Zhijie HUANG E-mail:huangzhijie23@foxmail.com

Abstract:

Focused on the simulation optimization problem in system-of-systems architecture design solutions, aiming at the the limitations of system-of-systems architecture static analysis in characterizing adversarial behaviors, as well as issues in system-of-systems effectiveness simulation, such as low abstraction levels, inefficient exploration of the solution space, and difficulties in revealing underlying causal mechanisms. A network dynamics modeling and simulation method for system of systems is proposed. This method integrates modeling and simulation formal system-of-systems theory and network dynamics theory. It employs formalized and standardized approaches to constituent elements of combat system-of-systems, their interconnections, behavioral mechanisms, and evolutionary principles through network modeling and dynamic behavior simulation.Firstly, the related research status is reviewed and analyzed, and then the method framework of modeling and simulation of system-of-systems network dynamics is proposed. Then the formal system-of-systems connotation of the proposed method is elaborated from three aspects of model specification, simulation algorithm and evaluation index, and the case verification is carried out on the basis of self-developed simulation system prototype. The case study shows that this method can realize the rapid calculation experiment and wide optimization of the system-of-systems design scheme space in the way of explaining the causal mechanism.

Key words: network dynamics, modeling and simulation, assessment, optimization

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